29 January 2004
Sajid Tanoli
Shooting
The murder of journalist Sajid Tanoli by a mayor in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province was reportedly over a report about alcohol trafficking.
Tanoli, aged 34, a reporter for the Urdu-language daily "Shumaal" ("North"), was killed by Khalid Javed, a lawyer and Nazim (mayor) of Mansehra, in the North-West Frontier Province, 150 kilometres northwest of Islamabad. Javed shot Tanoli five times in broad daylight on one of the city's streets.
