Afnan Khan, chief reporter for the “Daily Times” newspaper, has left the country after assailants, thought to be members of the Jamaatud Dawa, attempted to abduct him on December 3,
Copies of “Mashriq”, a local daily, were snatched and set on fire by a group of armed men on December 3, 2011. The incident occurred in Bannu district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province
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