Afghan anti-Taleban journalist murdered
GUNMEN shot dead Afghan journalist Janullah Hashimzada, who was an outspoken critic of the Taleban, as he travelled by bus through Pakistan's Khyber Pass yesterday, a Pakistani government official in Jamrud, the main town in the region, said.
"The attackers in a car intercepted the bus and made it stop and then they went inside and shot him dead," he said.
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