On 18 February 2009, Musa Khankhel, a Pakistani journalist was assassinated in
Matta, Swat after reporting on the peace march of
Sufi Muhammad
Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan (1933 – 11 July 2019) was a Pakistani cleric and Sunni Salafi Islamist militant, the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a militant group (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in 2002) ...
, the leader of a
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pas ...
group.
Khankel worked for
Geo as a reporter for five years and was known as an "aggressive and courageous reporter".
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