Journalist Saleem Shahzad Abducted and found dead.

[mikkix]

ISI splits in two....
Two groups playing with each other.. One is backed by CIA and the other one is behind Jihadis..

 

[Mav3rick]

ISI literally have 100's of critics that are far more vocal and well known then this journalist, if ISI was indeed involved in such murders then they would have silenced the biggest critics first which would eventually have had silenced the rest. All this is BS, all negative propaganda by opportunists! Whether anybody likes it or not ISI is a highly organized military agency that is answerable for all actions carried out.

ISI's conflict of interest is at odds with the CIA, the former wants stability inside Pakistan and Afghanistan while the later wants to ensure militancy and terrorism in Pakistan...........to justify US interference and perhaps even to 'try' and neutralize our Nuclear Weapons.

 

[sab]

ISI splits in two....
Two groups playing with each other.. One is backed by CIA and the other one is behind Jihadis..

I think you are closer to truth....

 

[Roby]

Saleem Shahzad’s cell phone record erased

LAHORE:

The record of slain journalist Saleem Shahzad’s cell phone activity has been mysteriously erased – with the network log of the 18 days leading up to his abduction and murder being wiped clean from the system.

According to data obtained by The Express Tribune, the “last” call made by Shahzad was back on May 12.

Saleem Shahzad worked for Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online and Italian news agency Andkronos International. The police are yet to register an abduction-cum-murder case against Shahzad’s killers.

The case is starting to look a lot like that of Umer Cheema, another journalist who was kidnapped and tortured recently and whose cell phone data was also deleted from the system in a similar manner.

Hamza Ameer, the brother-in-law of the slain journalist, found Saleem Shahzad’s mobile phone switched off when he tried to contact him at 5:42 pm on May 29.

According to data obtained by The Express Tribune, Shahzad made his “last” call on May 12 near a cell phone tower installed atop a bank in Islamabad’s Blue Area, Plot No94, Deen Pewalian in Islamabad.

Shahzad, according to cell data, was in Islamabad between May 1 and 8:27 pm on May 12.

The “second last” call received by Shahzad was made by his wife and it lasted slightly over a minute (the call was made between 12:16:05 and 12:17:19).

His wife’s “last” call received by Shahzad lasted just 13 seconds (made between 7:51:16 and 7:51:29).

Furthermore, Hamza Ameer said that police are yet to register a proper case of abduction and murder of Saleem Shahzad.

He said that he had filed a complaint after Saleem Shahzad had gone missing (The record shows the complaint No43 was filed at 2:20 am on Monday, May 30).

The complaint reads: “My brother in-law Syed Saleem Shahzad, the bureau chief of Asia Times Online, left today at 5:30 pm to appear in an interview on Dunya News (television), but since that time he has been missing. I request you to please probe the matter and search for him.”

Later, the Margalla police station had converted the same complaint into an FIR, without applying the section for abduction-cum-murder, Hamza Ameer said.

Another FIR was also registered in Mandi Bahauddin and Shahzad’s autopsy was also conducted in the district headquarters (DHQ) hospital in the same town on May 30.

The IGP on the direction of the CM Punjab has issued a notification regarding constitution of three-member committee headed by DIG Shoaib Dastgeer with a mandate to probe the matter.

DIG Shoaib told The Express Tribune that the investigators would meet the heirs of the slain journalist. He said that statements of eyewitnesses, if there are any, will also be recorded.

He said that because the autopsy of dead body of slain journalist had been conducted in Islamabad so according to law the murder’s section of 302 CrPC will be added by the Margala police station where the FIR was first
registered. He claimed that the team would finalise its report quickly.

 

[Muhammad-Bin-Qasim]

Not only his cell phone records have been erased but his book has also been banned in Pakistan...

All of this should be a wake up call for my "patriotic" friends here who "see, hear and speak" no evil about our country's corrupt intelligence agency...

This also should be a wake up call for those who blame the Islamists for every single problem of our country...

 

[T-Faz]

You were the one blaming Amreeka for this without any proof what so ever, Shahzad merely exposed the penetration of Al Qaeda cells within PN and we know AQ is an Islamist organization.

Now who has the capability to delete phone records, the taliban certainly can't do this, neither can AQ.

The ones responsible are digging a bigger hole for themselves.

 

[Muhammad-Bin-Qasim]

T Faz...

He was killed for his contacts information... He is the only journalist to have ever interviewed Ilyas Kashmiri who was recently killed in a joint US/Pak attack...

He had angered a certain section of Pak military for saying the things he was saying... not because there was necassarily any truth in it but because he is repeating a line that is aparently being said by Mossad and right wing politicians of America... also he had contacts which are vocally and militarily opposed to Pak Army...

You are right... they have dug a hole for themselves... and since nothing is going to be done about it by the current establishment, it would become all too clear for you who dunnit... Do you understand what I m saying? Once our own team of investigative journalists find out who is behind all this, we will let everyone know...

Truth will come out eventually inshaAllah... This cycle of violence in Pakistan has to come to an end... and please think for one second what I m saying... Yes it could ve been the Islamists... but by the same measure, agencies such as CIA et al are as brutal and vicious in what they do... they have destroyed entire nations and countries in the past... killing one person is nothing big for them...

Our mutual enemy T Faz now seeks a scapegoat... Keep watching closely what happens...

 

[Muhammad-Bin-Qasim]

Read this... Its not the AQ sympathesisers in our military...

Death is one Pakistani reporter's constant companion | iWatch News

All this is how these corrupt agencies operate... ISI is nothing more but a proxy of CIA inside Pakistan... and this accusation is not mine but fast becoming the consensus in Pakistan journalist community...

The only statement by ISI in all this affair has been by an anonymous ISI officer... Can you imagine?

 

[Muhammad-Bin-Qasim]

Pakistan ko bachaney kay chakar main Pakistan ko hee tabah kar rahay hain...

 

[notsuperstitious]

Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Saleem Shahzad’s murder case; Commission decides to visit Sarai Alamgir

Saleem Shahzad’s murder case; Commission decides to visit Sarai Alamgir
ISLAMBAD, July 19 (APP): The Inquiry Commission, tasked to probe murder case of journalist Saleem Shahzad, on Wednesday decided to visit the places in Sarai Alamgir and Mandi Bahuddin from where the vehicle and body of late media personnel were recovered. The Commission took a decision in its meeting held in the Supreme Court building. The meeting was presided over by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Judge of the apex Court, and attended by other members. The members were also keen to meet wife of late journalist to get her viewpoint. The Commission was apprised by concerned authorities that cell phone record of late Saleem had been retrieved, however, his cellular phone and laptop were still missing. It was also informed that the concerned authorities had been making efforts to trace out these missing items.
Response of the relevant company over email data was yet awaited, Commission was further informed.
Pervaiz Shaukat, president Pakistan Federal Union of Jounralists (PFUJ), giving a briefing to mediapersons after meeting, said the Commission would decide ways and means to hold a meeting with wife of the deceased journalist.
He told in today’s proceedings, Mohammad Shafiq and others, who fished out body of late journalist, recorded their statements.
Similarly, Naseem Zehra and Tahir Ali, two journalists, also recorded their statements.
The Commission was further told that Punjab and Islamabad police had been continuing their separate investigation.
The PFUJ president informed that Commission’s next meeting would be held on July 25.
The Commission was made functional on the request of journalists bodies who wanted an independent inquiry of the murder case of Saleem Shahzad.
The government on June 19 through Ministry of Law and Justice had made a request for nominating Judge of the Supreme Court to act as President of the Commission, to be constituted under section 3 of Pakistan Commission of Inquiry Act, 1956 (Act VI of 1956), for indepth probe of the mysterious assassination of journalist Saleem shahzad.
On June 20, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry giving his approval wrote in the order “Justice Mian Saqib Nisar is hereby nominated as President of the Commission.
It is expected that the Competent Authority, while nominating the other members will also consider their status qua the position of President of the commission, being Judge of the Apex Court.
Since then, the Commission has held a number of meetings to investigate the issue.

Taliban sure are very very advanced. After mysteriously making Shahzad's phone records disappear, and then reapper (after necessary corrections one presumes), now his phone and laptop are 'missing'.

One feels they will be found in time too. With Taliban being in such a position to tamper evidence at will, its no surprise they are never found guilty of anything.

Wow, how naive one needs to be to lap this up on one hand but make up incredible conspiracy theories when facts are too inconvenient!

 

[TaimiKhan]

Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Saleem Shahzad’s murder case; Commission decides to visit Sarai Alamgir



Taliban sure are very very advanced. After mysteriously making Shahzad's phone records disappear, and then reapper (after necessary corrections one presumes), now his phone and laptop are 'missing'.

One feels they will be found in time too. With Taliban being in such a position to tamper evidence at will, its no surprise they are never found guilty of anything.

Wow, how naive one needs to be to lap this up on one hand but make up incredible conspiracy theories when facts are too inconvenient!

Plz give the link where it has been mentioned by official sources that the cell phone data is not correct or incomplete or tempered with, as this news has been missed by me.

Thanks in advance.

 

[humanfirst]

Is his book banned in pakistan?

 

[Vassnti]

Now who has the capability to delete phone records, the taliban certainly can't do this, neither can AQ.

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Seems with whats coming out in the Murdoch investigation its pretty easy to hack a phone and delete messages.

 

[pak-marine]

Saleem Shahzad: ISI beyond reach of criminal justice system, says HRW


By Web Desk
Published: January 30, 2012


After the completion of the judicial inquiry into journalist Saleem Shahzad’s murder, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern over the commission’s inability to name the culprits and called for the Government of Pakistan to “redouble efforts” in the case.
A news release by the Human Rights Watch on Monday claimed that it had extensively documented the Inter-Services Intelligence’s (ISI) alleged intimidation, torture, enforced disappearances, and killings of many journalists, and fears that the commission’s failure in naming a culprit hints back to the ISI’s “stronghold over the country’s judicial system.”
HRW Asia Director Brad Adams, in the release, says: “The commission’s failure to get to the bottom of the Shahzad killing illustrates the ability of the ISI to remain beyond the reach of Pakistan’s criminal justice system… The government still has the responsibility to identify those responsible for Shahzad’s death and hold them accountable, no matter where the evidence leads.”
Adams added that Shahzad had made it clear to the HRW that should he be killed, the ISI should be considered the principal suspect. “He had not indicated he was afraid of being killed by militant groups or anybody else.”
The HRW release said that the power of ISI over the commission was visible from the fact that journalist Umar Cheema was not called to record his statements in the case. Cheema was also abducted, tortured and then dumped 120 kilometers from his residence in Islamabad in September 2010. Cheema had alleged that his abductors were from Pakistan’s intelligence agencies.
It is inexplicable that the commission failed to seek Cheema’s testimony despite his very public allegations against the ISI and repeated offers to testify before the commission, Human Rights Watch said.
“ISI abuses will only stop if it is subject to the rule of law, civilian oversight, and public accountability,” Adams said. “It is the government’s duty to insist on such accountability and the military’s duty to submit to it. The ISI needs to stop acting as a state within a state.”
Shahzad was abducted while driving from his house to a television station in Islamabad on May 29 last year, two days after he alleged in an article that al Qaeda had infiltrated the Pakistan Navy. His body, bearing marks of torture, was found the next day in a canal near Mandi Bahauddin, a district of Punjab province.
Rights groups and journalists’ bodies had alleged that he was killed by the ISI.
The high-level judicial commission, headed by Supreme Court judge Justice Saqib Nisar, presented its report to the prime minister after six months of its formation but did not hold anyone responsible for the abduction, torture and murder of the journalist.
Shahzad’s family had termed the report “disappointing”.

 

[pak-marine]

Pakistani spy agencies under criticism a year after journalist’s murder

Sajjad Haider

A year has passed since Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad’s tortured body was found from near Islamabad. Authorities, however, have yet to identify his killers even after a government inquiry into the gruesome murder.—File Photo

Pakistan’s intelligence agencies came under heavy criticism from global human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday, a year after journalist Saleem Shahzad’s abduction and assassination near the Pakistani capital.

“Pakistan must take urgent steps to bring [Shahzad’s] killers to justice and properly investigate claims of intimidation against journalists, including by intelligence services,” said Amnesty International in a statement released on the journalist’s death anniversary.

“Shahzad’s killing last year highlighted the perils faced by journalists in Pakistan,” said Polly Truscott, South Asia director at Amnesty International.

The journalist’s body, bearing marks of torture, was found near Mandi Bahauddin, 130 kilometres southeast of Islamabad – two days after his disappearance on May 29, 2011.

“Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous countries for media workers with at least three journalists killed in the past five months. Last year, at least six lost their lives,” said Truscott.

Two days prior to his abduction, Shahzad had published an article, alleging that Navy personnel sympathetic to Al Qaeda had facilitated an attack at a Pakistan Naval base.

In October 2010, Shahzad had told colleagues that he felt he had been threatened by the ISI for his reporting on Al Qaeda infiltration into Pakistan’s armed forces.

A government-appointed commission had investigated Shahzad’s murder, but was unable to identify his killers.

“There was a sophisticated, well-organised attempt by Shahzad’s killers to cover their tracks – all the more reason why Pakistan’s intelligence services, and especially the ISI, must be thoroughly investigated,” Truscott insisted.

This is not the first time that rights organisation have criticised Pakistani spy agencies, or that they have questioned Pakistani authorities over the journalist’s killing. Following the government inquiry report on Shahzad’s murder, the Human Rights Watch blamed the commission of being “fearful of confronting the ISI over Shahzad’s death.”

“The commission’s failure to get to the bottom of the Shahzad killing illustrates the ability of the ISI to remain beyond the reach of Pakistan’s criminal justice system,” HRW’s Asia director Brad Adams had said .

A statement by the media wing of the army rejected the allegations, terming them “extremely derogatory, biased and contradictory.”

On May 17, the HRW urged the President Zardari not to sign a bill to authorize a newly formed national human rights commission until it is revised to “authorize investigations of the military and the intelligence agencies for human rights violations.”

Expressing its concern over the alleged “human rights violations by members of the armed forces and intelligence agencies,” the international watchdog urged the president to grant the commission “authority over abuses by the military and intelligence agencies.”

Tuesday’s statement from Amnesty International was worded in similar fashion:

“No government official should be above the law and they should be subjected to proper scrutiny whether the allegation of corruption by civil authorities or abductions by the intelligence services,” said Truscott.

“Pakistan must bring all perpetrators to justice in trials that meet international fair trial standards, without recourse to the death penalty.”