PESHAWAR: Reporters sans Frontières: Wife of Martyred Journalist Slain

She was killed in the early hours of Saturday by a bomb planted next
to her bedroom outside her home in Mir Ali, North Waziristan.

Her five children, aged 2 to 10, were sleeping in an adjoining bedroom
and escaped unhurt. A schoolteacher, Khan's widow had been active in
protesting against his murder about six months after his abduction.

"We call on the authorities in Islamabad and in the tribal areas to
investigate this barbarous killing," the RSF said in a press release.
The RSF said that for the time being, it was not easy to know the
motives for the killing, which had saddened the family for the second
time.

"Hayatullah's murderers, whom the authorities have failed tried to
identify, may have felt the need to eliminate an irritating witness,"
said the RSF.

The slain journalist's brother, Ehsanullah Khan, confirmed his
sister-in-law's death to the RSF.

"She was sleeping on the floor in her bedroom while her five children
were in another bedroom. The bomb exploded at the foot of the wall of
her bedroom," said Ehsan.

He accused those who killed his brother of being behind his
sister-in-law's death. In the past, Ehsan had accused the Pakistani
military intelligence of being involved in his brother's abduction,
something the government has always denied. But the authorities never
published the findings of a Peshawar judge's investigation. Ehsan said
his sister-in-law had received threats, which he had reported to
former Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani. But the authorities
never took any measures to protect her.

Hayatullah's bullet-riddled body was found six months after he was
kidnapped in December 2005. Employed by the European Pressphoto Agency
(EPA) and several Pakistani media organisations, he had, shortly
before his abduction, proved that an Al-Qaeda leader had been killed
in the tribal areas by a US missile, said the RSF statement. staff
report

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