The slain journalist was trying to get the details of the ongoing negotiations in Matta where the cleric Mohammad is trying to convince his son-in-law to join the peace deal he has signed with the regional government in NWFP to end the conflict in Swat.
A journalist in Swat who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Khankhel had repeatedly refused to “report what the army wanted him to report.”
Abbas went to Turkey this week end. Erdogan wants Turkey to have a main role in the Middle East as a crisis-solver. Is now involved in the Schalit release negociations.