PESHAWAR: Senior
Sports Reporter of the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Peshawar Bureau, Ijaz
Ahmed Khan sustained serious head injury in a pre-dawn attack near Northern
Bypass in the limits of Khazana Police Station here on Wednesday.

He was rushed to a
hospital by his relatives, where he got stitches on his head. He was now
stable.

According to Ijaz,
he was intercepted by two motorcyclists close to his home on main
Peshawar-Charsadda Road near Northern Bypass at the time of Sehri. They asked
him about his profession.

When he told them
that he was a sports journalist working at APP Peshawar Bureau, one of them hit
him on head with some hard thing leaving him unconscious. They attackers then
escaped while he was rushed to the hospital by his relatives.

He told APP that he
had no enmity with anyone and reported the incident to Khazana Police Station.

Meanwhile, the
journalists community of Khyber Pakthunkhwa have expressed deep concerns over
the attack on a senior journalist and demanded the police authorities to ensure
early arrest of attackers.

Newspaper: Urdu Point