06-01-2011, 07:23 AM
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/articl...gency?bn=1
Quote:Shahzad went missing Sunday night, his family said, after he left his home heading for a local TV station.
Almost immediately after his disappearance, Human Rights Watch issued a release saying it had reason to believe Shahzad had been arrested by Pakistanââ¬â¢s intelligence agency, the ISI. His body was found with signs that he had been tortured, according to local news reports.
When Shahzad went missing, many locals in Pakistan feared the worst.
Operating as an objective, honest journalist in Pakistan is like navigating a minefield.
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A Human Rights Watch researcher on Twitter released an email that Shahzad had forwarded him Oct. 18, 2010. The human-rights organization had instructions to release it if Shahzad disappeared.
Shahzad told Human Rights Watch he had been summoned to the ISIââ¬â¢s headquarters on Oct. 17, 2010, a day after he published another controversial story. He met with two ISI officials: Rear Admiral Adnan Nawaz and[color="#FF0000"] Commodore Khalid Pervaiz[/color].
[color="#FF0000"]Pervaiz has just been appointed head of the naval base in Karachi that was just attacked, Time reported[/color].
Shahzadââ¬â¢s October story alleged Pakistan had released the Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Baradar from custody. Baradar was Mullah Omarââ¬â¢s deputy and Shahzad reported heââ¬â¢d been freed to negotiate with the Pakistan army.
The Oct. 18 email, purportedly from the ISI to Shahzad, was labelled ââ¬ÅFor future reference.ââ¬Â
ââ¬ÅI must give you a favour,ââ¬Â the ISI officer wrote to Shahzad. ââ¬ÅWe have recently arrested a terrorist and recovered a lot of data, diaries and other material during the interrogation. The terrorist had a list with him. If I find your name in the list, I will certainly let you know.ââ¬Â