Reporter
Magh 24
Kathmandu
India's notorious (RAW) spy agents have allegedly shot dead a media tycoon in the capital city Kathmandu of Nepal on Sunday, media reports say.
Jamim Shah, the head of the Space Time Network, was gunned down by two masked men of Indian origin on motorbikes near the French embassy in the heart of the city.
Mr Shah died during treatment at a nearby hospital an hour later. No one has yet been arrested so far.
Media tychoon Mr. Shah once commanded a massive media networks in Nepal ranging from newspaper to television. He is also attributed to have started the first ever cable television in the tiny Himalayan republic.
Mr Shah, a Kashmiri origin Nepali, was accused by the Indian government of having links to a major Indian crime syndicate, and to Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency. He denied the allegations. But he frequently complained of being targeted by the Indian spy network (RAW) agents.
At one time, he ran two newspapers that have now closed, Space Time and Space Time Today, and had a virtual monopoly on the distribution of foreign TV channels through his satellite network.
Mr Shah's driver, Mathura Man Malakar, was shot in the thigh in Sunday's incident. His condition is said to be stable.
Police said they were investigating the attack, but were not aware of the motive.
India's spy agents have been accused of coordinating several such attacks in the past. A parliamentarian named Mirza Dil Sad Beg was also allegedly murderd by Indian agents back in 1998.
The murder of Jamim Shah comes amid allegations by Nepal Communist party chairman Prachanda few weeks ago that India also orchestrated the murder of famous Nepalese nationalist politicians like late king Birendra and CPN (UML) leader Madan Bhandari. The culprits behind the killings of the politicians and king Birendra have never been brought to justice in Nepal.
