Bakhsheesh Elahi Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Pakistan journalists protest the killing of K2 Times journalist Bakhsheesh Elahi in June 2017. A second journalist for the Urdu-language newspaper was shot dead on October 16, 2018. (AP/B.K. Bangash)

Gunmen in Pakistan kill K2 Times reporter

October 17, 2018 5:54 PM EDT

New York, October 17, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Pakistani authorities to investigate and promptly bring to justice the killers of journalist Sohail Khan. Khan, a reporter for the Urdu daily K2 Times, was shot dead while driving in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, yesterday, according to multiple news reports.

Pakistani journalist murdered in Haripur

June 15, 2017 4:33 PM EDT

June 15, 2017, New York–Pakistani authorities should swiftly and credibly investigate the murder of Bakhsheesh Elahi and swiftly bring all those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Elahi, the Haripur bureau chief for the daily newspaper K2, was fatally shot in Haripur, about 80km (50 miles) north of Islamabad, on June…