Karachi: A senior Pakistani journalist was on Wednesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside his house here, a day after an employee of a leading media house was killed in the city in the latest attack on media persons in the country.

42-year-old Aftab Alam, who had been associated with different channels including Geo News and Samaa TV, was reversing his car in the city's North Sector C area after dropping his children at home when he was targeted by two gunmen on a motorbike.