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PAKISTAN: KIDNAPPED REPORTER FREED November 22, 2006
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) A Pakistani reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said that he was released on Tuesday by unknown men in the capital, Islamabad, a day after they abducted, blindfolded and beat him. Dilawar Khan Wazir, from the BBC's Urdu-language service, said he was snatched from a taxi in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, by a group of men who bundled him into another car and sped away.
On Tuesday, the men put him into a car and left him in a deserted area in Islamabad. The reason for his abduction was not revealed. Wazir's brother suggested that security agents may have been responsible for the kidnapping.
Interior Ministry officials were not available for comment, but the state minister for information said authorities had been looking into Wazir's disappearance.