Zaman Mehsud
Year: 2015
Nationality: Pakistan
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Tank, Pakistan
Press organization: Daily Ummat, Daily Nai Baat
What's Zaman Mehsud's story?
Mehsud was shot several times by two gunmen while riding his motorbike in the Tank district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police told local media. The 40-year-old journalist was the president and secretary-general of the Tribal Union of Journalists’ South Waziristan chapter and worked for the Urdu-language Daily Ummat and Daily Nai Baat newspapers. He was also district coordinator in Tank for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent group critical of all sides in the ongoing conflict in Pakistan.
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