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Hayatullah Khan, reporter of BBC

Mr. Hayat Ullah Khan, senior journalist working for BBC, was disappeared on 5 December 2005 it was suspected that Mr. Khan had been handed over to armed forces from the United States serving in Pakistan. Sadly, Mr. Khan’s dead body was found on June 15, after seven months of his abduction.

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Hayatullah Khan, reporter of BBC

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  1. Mr. Hayat Ullah Khan, senior journalist working for BBC, was disappeared on 5 December 2005 it was suspected that Mr. Khan had been handed over to armed forces from the United States serving in Pakistan. Sadly, Mr. Khan’s dead body was found on June 15, after seven months of his abduction. .Mr. Khan’s family was repeatedly informed by intelligence agencies and government officials that they would receive good news on Mr. Khan on or around June 15. Hayatullah Khan, reporter of BBC

  2. Dilawar Khan and his brother • On 20 November 2006, Mr. Dilawar Khan Wazir, the correspondent of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) who is also the reporter of Daily Dawn, the largest English newspaper of Pakistan, was allegedly abducted by the plain clothed men in broad daylight. • He was severely beaten on the street and then forcibly put in a taxi. Mr. Dilawar was then taken into a secrete place and severely tortured whilst blindfolded. After being captured for about 30 hours, he was been left in a far flung jungle. • Mr. Dilawar told the BBC that during his captivity, the abductors interrogated him about how he goes inside the places where army is having operations and gets the real stories so quickly. • Mr. Dilawar's 15-year-old younger brother Taimur Khan Wazir was also kidnapped and killed by unidentified persons and later found in severe condition in the outskirts of Wana, bordering Afghanistan.

  3. Today one journalist may be killed • A young journalist was kidnapped and executed last month while covering a march for peace. Mr. Musa Khankhel, journalist and correspondent of Geo Television disappeared on February 18, while covering a procession to celebrate a peace agreement with the government • He was 28 years old and also been kidnapped and tortured twice before by security forces. • On the day he was murdered, friends and relatives say that Khankhel mentioned hearing that 'today one journalist may be killed', through sources in the security agencies stationed in the war zone.

  4. Journalists were tortured at military torture cells • On 26 June 2006, Mr. Asif Baladi, a publisher and journalist, was allegedly abducted by unidentified armed men in midday from Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan on 26 June 2006. • Mr. Mehar Uddin Marri, a journalist based in Badin district, was arrested by the police on July 2 2006 from the house of the Federal Minister of State Mr. Mohammad Ali Malkani.

  5. A journalist was missing since 2007 • Mr. Abdul Razzaq Gul, a journalist and a bureau reporter of Daily Tawar at Turbat city of Balochistan province was arrested by the police on 8 April 2007 after his office was raided by the police that came in two jeeps accompanied by several people in plain clothes who came in two private cars. • When family members contacted the police station of Turbat, they were told that the three victims have been taken by members of a secret agency of the military on the suspicion of anti state activities and for being allegedly involved in the Balochistan Liberation Organisation.

  6. Army keeps two journalists in detention • March 2006, Mr. Mukesh Rupeta, a journalist and Mr. Sunjay Kumar, a cameraman, who were working with a private television channel disappeared after being arrested by the local police with regards to their filming for a documentary of Shehbaz air base located in Jacobabad in the interior of the Sindh province.  • This base is generally being used by US forces following September 11 2001. • When the relatives of Mr. Rupeta and Mr. Kumar were allowed to see the men for a moment, it is reported that they were unable to recognize by the family due to the severe torture that has been inflicted on the men by the military.

  7. Veteran reporter was gunned down • Veteran reporter, Raja Assad Hameed, gunned down outside his home in Rawalpindi on March 27, 2009. Hameed, who worked for Waqt TV and The Nation, an English-language newspaper, was gunned down outside his home. • Hameed’s murder comes just a month after the murder of journalist Mosa Khankhel, in which the police investigation has yet to yield any results. • No perpetrator has yet been arrested.

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