Islamabad: A journalist was shot dead by unidentified
assailants in a high-security zone in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi, according
to a media report.
Anjum Muneer Raja, 40, was returning home on a motorcycle late on Thursday night when the bike-borne attackers waylaid him and opened fire, the police said.
The incident had occurred on Bank Road, minutes away from the Pakistani
military’s national headquarters, the Dawn News reported.
Raja was shot six times on the head, neck and torso, killing him
instantly, the report said, adding the attackers then fled. Raja was
father to a five-year-old boy and used to teach at a school in the
mornings and worked as a sub-editor for an Islamabad-based Urdu
newspaper in the evenings, his uncle Tariq Mehmood said.
Mehmood said his nephew did not have a personal enmity with anyone and expressed shock over the killing in such a “highly-secured” area, according to the report.
