According to deputy inspector-general Feroz Shah, Aftab Alam was targeted outside his residence in 11-C area of North Karachi when he was leaving to pickup his children from school.
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Alam was shot hours after senior engineer Arshad Ali Jafri, who was also associated with Geo News, was gunned down in an attack on the channel’s van in Karachi’s Bahadurabad area.
After the attack, journalists’ unions called for greater security for media personnel and the speedy arrest of the attackers.
Pakistan’s Karachi has seen a spate of attacks on the media.
“The government issues customary statements sympathizing with the bereaved families and vowing to bring the killers to justice”. Police said bullet casings in the attack on the technician matched those from the recent murders of four policemen.
“If the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is ever going to establish its credibility as a protector of journalists, now is the time”, said Bob Dietz, Committee to Protect Journalists’ Asia program coordinator. He was killed by unknown people who came on a motor vehicle and those people suddenly started firing.
Geo TV, owned by Jang Group of Newspapers, is one of the largest media house in Pakistan.
He had most recently worked for another leading Urdu-language TV news channel, Samaa, but was not now employed in the profession.
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