On May 15, Daily Khabrain journalist Mehar Ashfaq Siyal was shot several times while travelling near Muzaffargarh in Punjab’s inner south. According to Siyal’s brother, Muhammad Ishaq, Siyal was attacked while the pair were travelling on separate motorcycles towards Muzaffargarh city. Two armed individuals on a motorcycle approached the journalist, before stopping his motorcycle and firing into his stomach. Ishaq claims that the assailants discharged additional shots into the air, before fleeing the scene.
