ISLAMABAD, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) - A senior lawyer was killed in firing inside a court in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, according to police officials.

Abdul Latif Afridi, a former president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, was sitting with other lawyers in the Peshawar High Court's bar room when a gunman opened fire at him, fatally injuring him, Kashif Aftab