Journalist shot by gunmen dies in hospital

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published: 3 March 2014 |  JP Staff Reporter

Ibrar Tanoli, a journalist and General Secretary of Manshera Press Club, has died after being shot by unidentified gunmen. His death has raised alarms about the safety of journalists in Pakistan.

Summary

MANSHERA: Ibrar Tanoli, General Secretary of Manshera Press Club, shot and critically injured by unidentified gunmen Sunday, succumbed to his injuries at the Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad Monday.

Tanoli who worked for a foreign news agency and a local newspaper had been on a ventilator in the hospital's intensive care unit after being shot in the neck.

He was to be buried in Mansehra later on Monday. The local union of journalists and the press club office-bearers have condemned the killing of their colleague and demanded immediate arrest of the perpetrators.

Nominated in a double murder case in 2013, Tanoli was arrested following the registration of FIR but released on bail by the Abbottabad Circuit Bench of the Peshawar High Court.

Tanoli is the third journalist to be killed in Pakistan this year. On January 1, Abb Takk Television's Larkana correspondent Shan Dhar, 40 was shot dead in Badah, Larkana by gunmen.

On February 14, Ijaz Mengal, a stringer for Daily Intekhab was killed in Khuzdar, Balochistan by a Baloch National Army separatist group that accused him of having acted as a spy for national security agencies.

KEY POINTS:

• Ibrar Tanoli succumbed to injuries from a gunshot wound.
• He was on a ventilator in the ICU before his death.
• Tanoli is the third journalist murdered in Pakistan this year.
• Local journalists demand justice for the killed colleague.
• The incident has drawn widespread condemnation from the press community.