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Taliban fighters in Pakistan - Source: Reuters
Gunmen have shot dead an Afghan journalist known as an outspoken critic of the Taliban as he travelled by bus through Pakistan's Khyber Pass.
Janullah Hashimzada, bureau chief in Pakistan for Afghanistan's Shamshad television channel, was travelling from Afghanistan when he was attacked.
"The attackers in a Toyota Corolla car intercepted the bus and made it stop and then they went inside and shot him dead," says Rehan Khattak, a government official in Jamrud, the main town in the Khyber region.
One passenger was wounded.
Khattak has declined to say who might have been behind the attack.
Journalists in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province where Hashimzada was based, say the reporter was a vocal critic of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
Violence has increased in Khyber over the past year with Pakistani Taliban launching attacks in an attempt to cut off supplies bound for Western forces in Afghanistan.
Kidnap and smuggling gangs also operate in the region, some of whose members also pose as Islamist militants.
