Mukarram Han Aatif, a local stringer for the US-funded Voice of America, was shot to death on January, fergananews.com reports.
The Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for the murder.
A local Taliban representative Ihnasulla Ihsan said the Taliban had repeatedly asked Aatif to stop publishing "hostile materials."
"However, he didn't obey our demands and thus met his fate," Ihsan told ITAR-TASS.
Aatif was at prayer in the mosque when two gunmen on a motorcycle drove up and one shot him in the head and chest. He was taken to a local hospital where he died of his wounds.
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