Muhammad Bilal Khan (; 1 January 1997 – 16 June 2019) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, poet, social media activist and YouTuber. He was assassinated by an unknown person in

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. Bilal was born on 1 January 1997, in

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, Pakistan. He studied at the Gordon College Rawalpindi and was a student of

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at the

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Islamabad. He also worked for

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channel.

Assassination

On 16 June 2019, Bilal Khan was stabbed by an unknown person in G 9/4 area of

. He was laid to rest in

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. Human Rights Minister

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condemned Khan's killing and assured that the investigation. More than 2 years after his murder on 20 September 2021, interior minister

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revealed in a press conference that Bilal Khan's killer, Syed Abid Ali Shah, a resident of

Kurram District Kurram District () is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river ''Kwarma'' () in Pashto, which itself derives from the Sanskrit word ''Krumu'' (). Until 2018, it funct ...

, had been arrested with a

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that was used in the murder.

References

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