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February 2021
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Pakistan: A Day After 'Disappearing', Geo TV Reporter Returns Home in Karachi Ali Imran. Photo: Geo TV screenshot

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Support The Wire Powered by MEDIASOUTH ASIA 24/OCT/2020 New Delhi: In yet another case of journalist going ‘missing’ in Pakistan, a Geo TV reporter, Ali Imran, disappeared from near his house in Karachi on Friday (October 23) evening. On Saturday evening, he returned to his mother’s home in the city and has said that he is not hurt, Dawn reported.

A Geo TV report said that Imran went missing on Friday evening after he had gone to a bakery near his house between 7 pm and 8 pm, and had “told the family that he would come back in half an hour”. According to his family, he was untraceable after that.

The report, quoted his wife, as saying, “His car is parked outside the house and his mobile phone is also at home.”

An FIR was registered at the Sachal police station under Sections 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Since July this year, this is the second case of a journalist ‘disappearing’ in Pakistan. Matiullah Jan, a prominent Pakistani journalist critical of the country’s army and also the Imran Khan government, was picked up from outside a school in Islamabad at the end of July, leading to demand for his release from various quarters. Jan was freed after 12 hours.

Meanwhile, the news of Imran’s disappearance attracted considerable attention on social media. As per the Dawn report, ‘#BringBackAliImran’ “was among the top trends on Twitter” in Pakistan on Saturday.

Responding to the incident, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab tweeted that the chief minister of Sindh “has taken notice (of the matter) and (had) spoken to the Inspector general (Sindh)”.

“The matter is being investigated,” he said.

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Opposition Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) president Maryam Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also condemned Imran’s disappearance. Speaking to reporters at Lahore on October 24, Maryam said, “I have heard that he has been picked up for allegedly sharing CCTV footage of (retired Captain Safdar’s arrest). This is unfortunate.”

The Dawn report quoted her saying, “You (the Pakistan government) have earned a lot of flak for breaking down my door, the manner in which you arrested my husband and the way you undermined the Sindh Police force. Don’t earn yourself more criticism by kidnapping people and stopping them from raising their voice for the truth.”

Bilawal reportedly called it an incident of “attack on the right to freedom of expression”. In a statement issued to the press, he said the media in Pakistan “is witnessing an unprecedented crackdown during the Imran Khan regime”.

While Amnesty International has said that Imran is “feared to have been subject to an enforced disappearance for his reporting”, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has demanded his “immediate release”.

Pakistan ranks 145th out of 180 countries in the 2020 world press freedom index, put together by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders. As per the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 61 Pakistani journalists have been killed due to their work since 1992.