(NEW YORK) -- Another senior Pakistani journalist has been killed, again in Pakistan's northwest, ABC News confirms.

Mehmood Jan Afridi, President of the Qalat Press Club, was in a shop when gunmen opened fire and killed him.

Two days ago, a reporter for GEO News, Malik Mumtaz, was targeted and killed.

Afridi's death marks the fifth killing of a journalist in the last two months.

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