Missing journalist tortured to death

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Faizan Zakaria Polani
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The mystery regarding missing journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad was resolved tragically on Tuesday when his body was found from a canal in Mandi Bahauddin. “Shahzad’s body was identified by his relatives and it had torture marks all over,” Margalla Police SHO Fiaz Tanoli said, adding that the police registered a case of Shahzad’s abduction on Sunday.
Earlier, the missing journalist’s car was recovered from Sarai Alamgir, 200kms from Islamabad, with an unidentified body dumped nearby. The SHO said Mandi Bahauddin police had registered an FIR of the case and recovered a diary from the deceased’s car. Shahzad was the Pakistan bureau chief of Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online.
He went missing from Islamabad’s Sector F-6 on Sunday after he left his house in Sector F-8/4 for recording a TV programme, police said. Shahzad used to write on security and terrorism issues for Asia Times Online and days before his death he wrote an article about arrest of some naval personnel linked to al Qaeda.
He had claimed that terrorists had threatened the Pakistan Navy with attacks if the officials were not set free.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Respect his soul!
    Share the grief with his family!

    Went missing from Islamabad!
    SHAME!

  2. Not a safe place to report where state institutions are turning rogue with each passing day. An irrepairable loss for his family; especially kids.

  4. Reham Malik has announced big head money for Saleem Shahzads' killers.Good but what about Wali Babars of GEO whose murderers were identified by Zulfikar Mirza and what about the target killersof thousands in Karachi and bathakhors of billion dollars of Karachi whose list Zulfikar Mirza revealed to world ?Government of PPP-,MQM,ANP has only power and wealth interests to look after.The savage indiscretions have shown us this day where no one is safe and devils rule the roost.

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