{"id":23062,"date":"2011-05-31T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23062"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:51:19","slug":"journalist-seized-by-the-pakistan-isi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23062","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Journalist Saleem Shahzad murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Pakistani news sources, the body of the Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online, has been <a title=\"Time, 'Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI Involved?'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,2074800,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a>. He had been <a title=\"Human Rights Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/world\/report_missing-pakistani-journalist-in-isi-custody-human-rights-watch_1549516\" target=\"_blank\">missing<\/a> since Sunday. Previous reports said that he was under the custody of Pakistan\u2019s Inter-Services Intelligence. Human rights groups <a title=\"Asia Times Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/South_Asia\/MF01Df02.html\" target=\"_blank\">claim<\/a> that the agency has abused and tortured journalists in the past. Saleem Shahzad&#8217;s disappearence followed after warnings from Pakistani security agencies over articles that seemed damaging to Pakistan\u2019s national interest and image. Shahza recently covered the Pakistan Taliban\u2019s <a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-13495127\" target=\"_blank\">attack<\/a> of a naval air force base in Karachi on May 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Pakistani news sources, the body of the Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online, has been found. He had been missing since Sunday. Previous reports said that he was under the custody of Pakistan\u2019s Inter-Services Intelligence. Human rights groups claim that the agency has abused and tortured journalists in the past. Saleem Shahzad&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[1957,134,3434,980,7351,727,3439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23062"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23205,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062\/revisions\/23205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}