Few days after the government acceded to Taliban demands to enforce Sharia law in the area, Pakistani reporter Musa Khan Khel has been shot dead in Swat Valley . Reporters Without Borders also reveal that his body was beheaded.  He was abducted by unknown assailants while covering a “peace” rally by Taliban supporters. Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at the murder today

On the same day a score of armed and masked men blew up the press club in Wana, capital of the South Waziristan tribal area, completely destroying the building. In two other recent incidents, a journalist received death threats and a television reporter was briefly abducted after interviewing a Taliban spokesman.

The body of Musa Khankhel, aged 28, a reporter in the Swat valley for Geo News and the newspaper The News was found beheaded a few hours after he was snatched during a “peace march” near Matta by supporters of the pro-Taliban cleric, Maulan Sufi Muhammad, one of his colleagues confirmed to Reporters Without Borders. There was no claim of responsibility. Several other reporters and journalists have been kidnapped and news reveal more than many murders in recent times.

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