SHIKARPUR: A senior
journalist associated with a Sindhi daily was shot and wounded by some masked
assailants near the Gul Wah (irrigation channel) area here on Tuesday.
Jameel Ahmed Mahar,
also the senior vice president of Shikarpur Union of Journalists (SUJ), was
chased and attacked in the area falling within the limits of Chak police
station.
Area residents told
police and local reporters that he was followed by two assailants riding a
motorcycle and escorted by some people riding a car. They said that the pillion
rider fired several shots at him.
Mr Mahar sustained
bullet wounds in his legs. Onlookers rushed him to the Lakhi Taluka Hospital,
where doctors provided him emergency medical aid and referred him to the Sukkur
Civil Hospital for further treatment.
A large number of
media personnel visited him at the hospital to inquire about his health.
Doctors later told them that his condition was stable.
SUJ president Agha
Israr Ahmed, Shikarpur Press Club president Rahmatullah Soomro, and
office-bearers of the two institutions, Sikh Seva Society chairperson Sardar
Ram Singh as well as the journalist community and other media personnel of the
district strongly condemned the attack and demanded immediate arrest of the
assailants.
Mr Mahar is associated
with Sindhi daily Koshish
Newspaper: Dawn
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