As Pakistan this week celebrated Eid al-Adha — the festival coinciding with the Hajj pilgrimage — journalists in the country mourned the loss of yet another colleague.
On Tuesday night, unidentified gunmen killed Khalil Jibran and injured a lawyer accompanying him in the Khyber tribal district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Reports indicate the journalist was on his way home with friends when the attackers ambushed his car.
Authorities said Jibran’s bullet-riddled body showed signs that he might have had a physical altercation with his attackers at the crime scene before being killed.
This was at least the sixth killing of a journalist in Pakistan this year. Four media members were killed in May.
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