Islamabad, Oct 7
A local journalist, Tufail Rind, was shot dead by armed assailants in Mirpur Mathelo area of Ghotki district in Pakistan's Sindh province on Wednesday while he was on his way to drop his children to school, local media reported citing police officials.
"Rind died on the spot, while his children miraculously escaped unharmed," read the police statement. Witnesses said that the attackers fled from the spot after attacking Tufail Rind. Later, the police took the body to the District Headquarters Hospital of Mirpur Mathelo for medico-legal procedure.
During a seminar at the National Press Club, current and former office-bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) paid tribute to both the journalists and spoke about their struggle for a free press.