Zeenat Shahzadi, Missing Pakistani Woman Journalist Fighting For Jailed Indian, Found After Two Years
Lahore October 21: It was reported by PTI that A Pakistani journalist, Zeenat Shahzadi had "forcibly disappeared" while working on the case of Indian citizen Hamid Ansari.
- A Pakistani journalist, Zeenat Shahzadi who was allegedly kidnapped two years ago has been rescued.
- Zeenat Shahzadi, a 26-year-old reporter of Daily Nai Khaber and Metro News TV channel, was kidnapped by unidentified men while she was reaching her home in Lahore on August 19, 2015.
- She was pursuing the case of an Indian engineer jailed in Peshawar on espionage charges.
The chief of Pakistan's Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal said that Shahzadi was retrieved nearby the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Thursday night. He also mentioned the key roles of tribals from Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces in her recovery.
Rescue of Pakistani Journalist is celebrated in Pakistan. Twitter.
Ansari, a resident of Mumbai had been arrested for illegally invading Pakistan from Afghanistan to meet a girl he had befriended online in 2012. He was convicted to three years imprisonment on charges of spying and entering Pakistan illegally.
On Shahzadi being kidnapped, her brother Saddam Hussain committed suicide in March last year, making the situation an importance by the media.
Human rights activists, including former Secretary General of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, IA Rehman, have raised their voice to set Ansari free since he has completed to serve his sentence.
