22 May 2008
Mohammed Ibrahim Khan
Shooting
Mohammed Ibrahim, a reporter for the Express News channel, was gunned down by unknown men outside Khar, the main town of the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, according to news reports.
The journalist was returning by motorcycle from an interview with local Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar, according to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and Imtiaz Ali, a Washington Post correspondent based in the nearby regional capital of Peshawar. Reuters quoted a local journalist saying the attackers took Ibrahim’s camera. They also took footage of the interview. Ibrahim also worked for the Urdu-language Daily Express. Bajaur is part of the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas of the North West Frontier Province where local authorities and international Afghanistan-based military forces are fighting with militant groups for control.
