Ayub Khattak
Pakistani journalist
Ayub Khan Khattak, (ca. 1971 – October 11, 2013), a Pakistani journalist for the Karak Times in the southern Karak District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative province and for the Daily Jang out of Karachi, specialized in crime in his region before he was killed.
Personal
Ayub Khattak lived in the village of Warana near Takht-e-Nasrati, in the Karak District. He is survived by his wife and the couple had two older sons, one of which was Shamsur Rehman, out of 10 children. He also has a brother Mukhtiar Khan. Ayub Khan Khattak was buried in his ancestral graveyard at Warana Mir Hassankhel village in Takht-e-Nusrati tehsil on Saturday October 12, 2013.
Career
Khattak was a journalist for the Karak Times and the Daily Jang. He got his start in journalism in 2004 and had been a journalist for nine years at the time of his murder. He was no stranger to threats and often received threats as a result of his reports that exposed criminal elements in his region. According to Ayub Khattak's colleagues, he had recently published an article on a local gang of drug dealers and their sale of illegal drugs.
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