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appeared to be pieces of a US Hellfire missile at the scene. The pictures provoked angry protests in
Pakistan at the infringement of Pakistani territory by US forces. While both the authorities and local militant groups denied any involvement in his killing, allegations persisted that Pakistan intelligence agencies were involved.
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beans about who had kidnapped and tortured him, failing which they decided to get rid of him? Or did Mr Dawar get to know something in captivity that he was not supposed to know and which the kidnappers could not afford to make public? There are too many questions about this tragic case and they need to be answered.
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The PFUJ-affiliated Khyber Union of
Journalists (KhUJ) and the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) in a joint report on Monday said that intelligence agencies might have had a hand in the incident. The detailed report will be released later. Tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan was kidnapped on December 5
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UNESCO sought reports on the murders of 12 Pakistani journalists between 2006 and 2009. During this time, Pakistani authorities only held one judicial inquiry – into the case of
Hayatullah Khan, murdered in June 2006. The judge who led the investigation submitted a report to Pakistani authorities in
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What is surprising is that whoever kidnapped Mr Dawar should have taken seven months to kill him. Why was he kept confined for that long and then finally killed? Were the kidnappers trying to cut some sort of deal with him to ensure that he would not be a troublemaker in the future nor spill the
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had been killed with four others in a blast at an alleged militant hideout in North
Waziristan. The official version was that bomb-making materials had exploded by accident, but locals said the men were killed by a missile fired from an unmanned US drone. However, Khan took photographs of what
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she been interview, that her husband had warned her "something" might happen to him, and had named individuals who would know why he had been killed. Her death left their five young children orphaned.
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