Nepalese TV executive shot dead
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Chairman of Nepal's first cable TV company, Jamin Shah, was shot dead in Kathmandu in broad day light on Sunday, Feb 7.
Two masked men on a motor cycle gunned him down as he was driving his car on busy Lazimpat street outside the French Embassy. Shah was on the way to his home from a health club. The assasins escaped after firing at Shah and his driver, police said.
Shah owned Channel Nepal, a cable news channel, and Space Time Networks, the country's first cable television company. He briefly operated daily newspapers in both English and Nepali, which he shut down for financial reasons.
The motive behind the attack is unclear, police said. Some investigators, however, suspect the attack might have been carried out to settle personal scores. Some have also pointed fingers at the Indian underworld.
A report in The Kathmandu Post said Shah had been consistently accusing links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. The allegsation first surfaced in 2004 and refused to die down, denials of Shah notwithstanding .
Two masked men on a motor cycle gunned him down as he was driving his car on busy Lazimpat street outside the French Embassy. Shah was on the way to his home from a health club. The assasins escaped after firing at Shah and his driver, police said.
Shah owned Channel Nepal, a cable news channel, and Space Time Networks, the country's first cable television company. He briefly operated daily newspapers in both English and Nepali, which he shut down for financial reasons.
The motive behind the attack is unclear, police said. Some investigators, however, suspect the attack might have been carried out to settle personal scores. Some have also pointed fingers at the Indian underworld.
A report in The Kathmandu Post said Shah had been consistently accusing links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. The allegsation first surfaced in 2004 and refused to die down, denials of Shah notwithstanding .
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