Two Pakistani journalists killed

Unidentified gunmen struck late Monday after a ceremony where the government granted amnesty to a rebel leader in return for his pledge to live peacefully in remote South Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.

Amir Nawab, a reporter for the Frontier Post, a national English language daily, and Allah Noor Wazir, who was working for Pushto language Khyber TV, died instantly in the hail of assault rifle fire.

AFP stringer Anwar Shakir was in hospital with a bullet injury in the back.

Under the peace deal tribal rebel Baitullah Mahsud -- an alleged ally of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate accused of kidnapping two Chinese engineers last year -- and dozens of supporters pledged not to harbour foreign militants.