Abducted Pak journo freed
A Pakistani journalist, who has been a vocal critic of the powerful military and government, was released late Tuesday hours after the government confirmed he had been abducted, his family said.
"My husband was abducted this morning outside the school (in the capital Islamabad) where I work," Kaneez Sughra, the wife of 51-year-old Matiullah Jan, told Reuters. "Thank God, he's back," Sughra said. He was left at the capital's outskirts after around 12 hours' captivity.
She said school security camera footage showed Jan, who had arrived to collect his wife from work, had been bundled into a car after being cornered by five vehicles - three of them unmarked, one with police markings and the other an ambulance. The military's public relations wing did not respond to a request for comment.
The Committee to Protect Journalists demanding Jan's release said he was among the journalists the army accused of sharing anti-state remarks on social media in 2018.
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