article_snippet: Unidentified gunmen attacked the lawyer, Samiullah Afridi, in the lawyer, Samiullah Afridi car near the city of Peshawar on Tuesday, said Mian Saeed, a police superintendent in Peshawar.
article_snippet: the lawyer, Samiullah Afridi had represented Dr. Shakeel Afridi, who was convicted of treason in 2012 by a Pakistani tribal court and is now serving a 23-year prison sentence.
article_snippet: Fahad Marwat, a spokesman for the militant group Jundallah, told CNN that Afridi was on the militant group Jundallah's hit list.
article_snippet: But Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, said the militant group Jundallah had carried out the assassination because Afridi defended the doctor, whom Afridi described as "a friend" of Osama bin Laden killers.
article_snippet: They're extremely violent," Afridi said.
article_snippet: CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen said Afridi Afridi is "a very unpopular figure in Pakistan" because of the perception that Afridi was involved in helping find Osama bin Laden.
article_snippet: And his lawyer, by extension, would also be seen as an unpopular person because of that perception," his said.
highlights_snippet: Samiullah Afridi had represented Dr. Shakeel Afridi, who was convicted of treason .