NEW YORK: - The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog, has condemned the fatal shooting of a Pakistani TV reporter, Mohammed Ibrahim, near the Pak-Afghan border on Thursday. "We offer our condolences to Mohammed Ibrahim's family and colleagues," CPJ Asia Programme Coordinator Bob Dietz said in a statement. "The new government must take immediate steps to investigate this murder and safeguard the journalists who are providing important reporting from this volatile border region." Ibrahim, a reporter for the Express News channel, was gunned down by unknown men outside Khar when he was returning by motorcycle from an interview with local Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar.