Islamabad: Unidentified people shot dead Shorkot Press Club president and senior journalist Muhammad Younis in Shorkot city of Pakistan on Saturday.
As per police, the deceased journalist, who was a correspondent of Urdu language daily newspaper Express, was on his way to his farmland at Mouza Manganwala on his motorcycle when two men hiding in a field opened indiscriminate fire, leaving him dead on the spot, reports Dawn News.
The attackers fled the scene after the incident.
Jhang District Police Officer (DPO) Rashid Hidayat ordered immediate arrest of the journalist’s killers, constituting a team consisting of Shorkot deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and other expert officers to probe into the incident, reports Dawn News.
Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Faisal Shahkar, taking notice of the murder, has sought a report from Faisalabad Regional Police Officer (RPO) Babar Sarfraz Alpa.
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