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Pakistan: Senior Pakistani journalist Absar Alam shot in Islamabad 

| @indiablooms | Apr 22, 2021, at 05:42 am

Islamabad: Senior Pakistani journalist Absar Alam was shot at in a suspected targeted attack incident recently in Islamabad, media reports said.

Alam was shot at a park near his home in the F-11 area of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday evening, a police spokesperson told Al Jazeera.

“He was shot in the stomach,” said Zia Bajwa, the spokesperson. “He has been operated on [at a local hospital] and he is OK, he is conscious.”

Alam had earlier served as the head of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).

PEMRA is an electronic media watch dog in Pakistan.

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