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The 40-year-old's body was found by local residents in a canal in the Sarai Alamgir area of Mandi Baha Uddin, some 150km (93 miles) south-east of the capital. His car was found about 10km (six miles) away....Mr Hasan of Human Rights Watch said Shahzad had recently complained about being threatened by the intelligence arm of the Pakistan military, the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
"He visited our office and informed us that the ISI had threatened him. He told us that if anything happened to him, we should inform the media about the situation and threats," he told the AFP news agency. "We can form an opinion after the investigation and a court verdict, but... in the past, the ISI has been involved in similar incidents."
Mr Hasan also said he had been told by some Pakistani government officials that they believed Shahzad was in ISI custody....Shahzad, who had a wife and three children, worked for the Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI) and was Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online.
Human rights groups recently called Pakistan the most dangerous place in the world for journalists to operate, saying they were under threat from Islamist militants but also Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies.
Comments
Shahzad's murder appears to confirm the accuracy of his latest reports, which show a Pakistani military (the navy in this case) so fearful of its infiltration by extremists that it actually negotiated directly with Al-Qaìda for the release of detained suspects.
Shahzad was a man of great courage -- for a Pakistani journalist, a fatal flaw.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ME27Df06.html
by acanuck on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 9:31pm
Daniel Pearl was similarly done in by the ISI in the opinion of many.
by NCD on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 11:37pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 10:17pm
For at least 6-7 years, I think, I made it a point to check Asia Times regularly, mainly to see if Shazad had published something there; I looked for his byline first.. And I re-posted many, many of his articles on various forums that I have participated in over the years, precisely because they had clarifying information that no one else had.
He had incredible contacts and inside info. in his area, from Washington D.C. to Waziristan to Karachi to Kabul, like no other reporter. Though he sometimes got it wrong, I always thought he used those contacts very skeptically and very wisely, perhaps more so than others who used contacts similarly--Seymour Hersh comes to mind.
Sigh, so I went to see what Asia Times has on him now. Here's the top of their front page:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 10:36pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 10:35pm
New York Times Editorial:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 10:56pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 11:01pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 11:24pm