Suspect arrested for Pakistani journalist Aftab Alam's murder

Islamabad: A suspect in the murder of a senior Pakistani journalist has been arrested in Karachi, sources told Geo News on Friday. According to the sources, law enforcers have completed their initial investigation into the murder and arrested the suspect, who is currently being interrogated. Aftab Alam, a senior journalist who was earlier working with Geo News, was shot dead on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen outside his house in Karachi. [caption id=“attachment_2427598” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] Forty-two-year-old Aftab Alam, who had been associated with different channels including _Geo New_s and Samaa TV, was reversing his car in the city’s North Sector C area after dropping his children at home when he was targeted by two gunmen on a motorbike.   Aftab who received multiple bullet wounds on his head, neck and chest, was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed hospital where doctors declared him dead. It was the second incident in two days when the media persons were targeted by unidentified shooters on motorcycles. On Wednesday night, a news van of Pakistan’s biggest media group, Geo Television Network came under fire by three unidentified gunmen in the Bahadurabad area in which a senior technical engineer was killed while the driver was injured. The engineer, Arshad Ali Jaffri, died after being shot nine times in his upper body while driver Anis Chohan was injured and shifted to a private hospital. The assailants fled the scene on motorcycles after opening fire. Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Khan Siyal has asked senior police officials to immediately arrest the suspects. Investigators so far have not been able to make any progress in the investigation of the attack on Jafri. The two new incidents have revived bitter memories of last year’s incident in the North Nazimabad area when two employees of the Express media group were gunned down while they sitting inside their news van. One of Geo’s leading anchors Hamid Mir was also attacked last year in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. With inputs from Agencies