By IANS,
Islamabad : A judicial commission in Pakistan probing the abduction and murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad has said that people are not coming forward to help it expose the killers.
Justice Saqib Nisar of the Supreme Court, who is presiding over the commission, said despite requests through media advertisements, no one had stepped forward to aid his body, reported Dawn.
All that the commission could get was a call suggesting to approach one ‘Pir Baba’ who would lead it towards the murderer.
Shahzad, 40, was kidnapped in Islamabad May 29 and his body, bearing marks of severe torture, was found in a canal in Punjab province two days later.
He is widely believed to have been seized by intelligence officials for alleging in an article that terrorists attacked a naval base in Karachi after the navy refused to free sailors held for suspected militant links.
Journalists, including Najam Sethi, had been summoned for recording their statements during the commission’s last hearing held in Lahore.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has told the commission that directives have been issued to mobile telephone operators to preserve the mobile phone data of the dead journalist.