ISLAMABAD:
The top bosses of the American news agency Associated
Press (AP)
have summoned Pakistani journalist Ashraf Khan to New York,
reportedly to asses his case in the wake of threats to him from
the Taliban.
Khan, who had to flee the southern port city of Karachi along
with his family, after receiving a written warning in February
from the militants to mend his ways, has since restricted his
movements.
The threats to him and his family came after he is said to have
filed stories on the working of some seminaries reportedly
imparting training to students to become suicide bombers. The paper work for sending Khan to the AP headquarters
is currently being done. It is however, not known if his family
would accompany him.
The AP officials
in Pakistan, who had earlier told Khan to quit and had refused
to relocate him to the United States, are now fully facilitating
him.
This year in
January, the Taliban shot dead Mukarram
Khan Atif, who worked for Dewa
Radio,
a Pashto language radio channel of the Voice
of America, in
the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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