Awami Awaz journalist Ali Sher Rajpar killed in Sindh attack

JournalismPakistan.com | Published 6 years ago

DADU - A second Pakistani journalist has been killed inside a week.

Dawn.com reported that Ali Sher Rajpar of Awami Awaz newspaper was murdered in an attack outside the Padidan Press Club (Sindh) on Saturday.

Rajpar was also an office-bearer of the press club.

Meanwhile, the paper later reported that police had arrested the suspected killer, identified as Habib Rajpar, a cousin of Ali Sher.

Police said the murder was the result of a family dispute.

On April 30, unidentified shooters murdered journalist Amanullah Gharro in Lunda Sharif, D.I.Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

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