Journalist & Ex-Chairman PEMRA Absar Alam injured in attack

ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist and former chairman Pemra, Absar Alam was shot and injured in an attack in Islamabad Tuesday evening.
Senior journalist and ex-chairman PEMRA #AbsarAlam was shot outside his home in Islamabad earlier this evening. @AbsarAlamHaider pic.twitter.com/UImL4eCnXY
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The former PEMRA chairman was on a walk in a park in sector F-11 Islamabad when he was shot by unidentified men, according to the police.
Alam was shifted to a hospital where he was in a stable condition, his colleagues said. The journalist sustained gunshot wounds to his abdomen.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed took notice of the attack and ordered an investigation into it.