- Hayatullah Khan
Hayatullah Khan (1976-2006) was a Pakistani journalist who reported from Pakistan's
Federally Administered Tribal Areas . Khan wrote extensively onAl-Qaeda ,Taliban and the heavy fighting inWaziristan . His dead body was discovered in June 2006, after he was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on the December 5, 2005.cite news
url=http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=47732
title=Who killed Hayatullah Khan?
publisher=Asia Media
date=Saturday,June 17 ,2006
accessdate=2007-11-25] cite news
url=http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2006/deadly_news/khan.html
title=The last story:Hayatullah Khan
publisher=Committee to protect journalism
author=Bob Dietz
date=2006
accessdate=2007-11-25]Just days earlier, the Pakistani authorities had said an al-Qaeda commander they named as Abu Hamza Rabia had been killed with four others in a blast at an alleged militant hideout in North Waziristan. The official version was that bomb-making materials had exploded by accident, but locals said the men were killed by a missile fired from an unmanned U.S. drone.
Mr Khan took photographs of what appeared to be pieces of a U.S. missile at the scene. cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5092802.stm
title=Pakistan probes journalist death
publisher=BBC
date=Sunday,18 June 2006
accessdate=2007-11-25] The pictures provoked angry protests in Pakistan at the infringement of Pakistani territory by U.S. forces. While both the authorities and local militant groups denied any involvement in his killing, allegations persisted that Pakistan intelligence agencies were involved.On November 17th, 2007, Hayatullah's widow was murdered by a bomb that was detonated outside her home. Preliminary evidence indicates she was the target of the attack.cite news
url=http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24417
title=Slain tribal area journalist’s widow murdered
publisher=Reporters Without Borders
date=Saturday,17 November 2007
accessdate=2007-11-26]Khan was the fifth, and most high-profile, journalist to be killed in Waziristan in two years, where working conditions for journalists are very hostile who face death threats from the Taliban and harassment from the military [cite web|title=Killing scares media away from Waziristan|url= http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html|publisher=
Christian Science Monitor |date=2006-06-22|author=David Montero|accessdate=2008-08-25] .ee also
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*Inter-Services Intelligence References
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