24 January 2009
Aamir Wakil
Shooting
Aamir Wakil, 40, a married man with four children, was murdered close to his home in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.
Wakil, who worked for "Awami Inqilab" (The People's Revolution), a regional daily based in Kohat, south of Peshawar, was shot in the back, near the neck. "He was just a few metres from his home when he was killed," his brother, Asfar, told Reporters Without Borders. "
Aamir told me two hours before he was murdered that he had received threats from unidentified persons," Asfar said. "It was a targeted murder. I do not think the authorities did it. His killers were not government people." Rawalpindi-based journalists told Reporters Without Borders that Wakil was a "professional journalist" and that he had no rivals.
