US EditionPakistani journalist Waheed Murad seized from home in the night - Committee to Protect Journalists
- Senior journalist Waheed Murad, a reporter for Urdu News and operator of Pakistani24, was allegedly abducted from his Islamabad residence around 2am on a Wednesday morning by masked men in black uniforms who seized his and his mother's phones and took him away in a black vehicle.
- The alleged abduction of Murad occurred on Chaman Road in Sector G-8, prompting his mother-in-law, Abida Nawaz, to file a petition for his recovery, claiming that the unidentified men accused Murad of being an Afghan before forcibly breaking into their home.
- The petition, filed via Advocates Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha, names the interior secretary, defence secretary, Islamabad inspector general of police, and the station house officer of Karachi Company police station as respondents, and alleges that the men in black uniforms forcibly took Murad away, although no FIR was registered at the Karachi Company police station.
- Following the alleged abduction, Murad appeared before the Judicial Magistrate Islamabad court and was placed in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency for two days under Pakistan's cybercrime laws, accused of cyber terrorism and publishing fake news, with authorities claiming he posted "intimidating content" online.
- The incident, part of a disturbing trend of enforced disappearances and detentions of journalists in Pakistan, has drawn condemnation from journalist unions and human rights organizations, including the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, who see it as a threat to democracy and press freedom, especially in light of related incidents such as the disappearance of exiled journalist Ahmed Noorani's brothers and the detention of Farhan Mallick.
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Journalist 'picked up' from Islamabad by masked men
Senior Pakistani journalist Waheed Murad. — X@awaheedmuradISLAMABAD: Senior journalist Waheed Murad was reportedly "picked up" from his residence in Islamabad in the wee hours of Wednesday.His wife alleged that a group of masked individuals dressed in black uniforms stormed into their home...
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