Suspected killers of journalist acquitted
Peshawar
January 21, 2021
HARIPUR: The Model Criminal Court here on Wednesday acquitted a man and his two sons charged with the murder of local journalist Sohail Khan.
According to the first information report registered with the Hattar Police Station, Sohail Khan, 28, resident of Hattar village was, was on the way back home by his high-roof van after dropping school children when unidentified assailants ambushed him on the morning of October 16, 2018. Sohail Khan had been working for a local Urdu daily.
He suffered multiple bullet shots and died instantly. The local journalists took to the streets and staged protest against the murder of their colleague and termed it the result of Sohail’s journalistic work as he used to write about the local industrialists and drug peddlers,