Journalist shot, injured in Peshawar

A senior journalist working for a Pushto-language news channel was shot and wounded in Peshawar on Monday. His condition, however, is said to be out of danger, eyewitnesses said.

“Three armed people on motorcycles and others in a car attacked us and shot at Hazrat Khan Mohmand,” Nisar Khan, a journalist who was accompanying the senior reporter, told reporters outside the emergency ward of the Lady Reading Hospital where Mohmand was brought for treatment. The attack took place right under the nose of police and near the heavily guarded building of the Peshawar High Court. The area is regarded as a “high security zone” as key sensitive government offices are located on the road. “The men on the motorcycle intercepted us and two of them opened fire at the reporter. They also threw bricks at him further injuring him,” Khan said. Mohmand was lucky to escape enough, as no bullet hit him, however, he received head injuries after the attackers hit him in the head with bricks, Khan said.