15 May 2024 | RSF
Tribal area TV reporter shot dead in northern Pakistan
Shooting
Khalil Jibran, a reporter who covered Pakistan’s Taliban armed militancy for the Pashto-language Khyber News TV channel, was ambushed and killed on the evening of 18 June in Landi Kotal, a town near the Afghan border that is the capital of Khyber District. Jibran’s killers riddled him with bullets after making him get out of the car in which he was driving home. Colleagues said he had reported receiving threats from Taliban militants. An experienced journalist in his early 50s, he left a wife and six children.
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