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Chapter 3: CHRONOLOGY OF VIOLATIONS |
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Amir Nawab Khan and Allah Noor Wazir – February 7, 2005
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Amir Nawab Khan, cameraman for Associated Press Television News and reporter for daily The Frontier Post, and Allah Noor Wazir, reporter for independent television channel Khyber and daily The Nation were killed by gunmen in South Waziristan Agency of Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan . Anwar Shakir, stringer for Agence France-Presse and daily Islam and Zardad Khan of television channel Al-Jazeera were wounded in the same attack. The journalists were returning from attending a reception that saw rebel tribal militant Baitullah Mehsud surrender before the military authorities and sign a peace agreement in the town of Sararogha. The four journalists, along with six others, were traveling in the same vehicle when near Wana town it came under a hail of Kalashnikov fire from a passing car, killing Khan and Wazir instantly. The identity of the attackers has remained a mystery. |
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