A Pakistani journalist, who is associated with a private news TV channel, has been gunned down in the country's Sukkur city, media reports said on Sunday.

A group of armed men opened fire on Ajay Laalwani, a reporter of Royal News TV, when he was sitting at a barber shop. He suffered injuries and was taken to Civil Hospital, Sukkur, where he died during treatment. The killers fled the scene, Dawn News reported.

The incident triggered panic in the area.

The Sindh Journalists Council has appealed to the Sindh chief minister and inspector general of the police to take action for an early arrest of Laalwani’s killers, the newspaper reported.

(IBNS)