Missing journalist Anis-ur-Rehman recovered

JournalismPakistan.com | Published 5 years ago

ISLAMABAD—Anis-ur-Rehman, editor of the Nawa-e-Waqt Group's weekly magazine Nada-e-Millat was recovered on Thursday from Islamabad eight days after he went missing.

In a statement, Asif Ali Bhatti, general secretary of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) said that police officers had informed him about his recovery from Islamabad. “It is the result of friends' struggle and prayers,” he said.

He said that on the directives of Nasir Zaidi, Secretary-General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist (PFUJ), RIUJ tried to have an FIR registered. However, police refused to do so.

Rehman had gone missing on June 10, the day he visited the Saudi Embassy in Islamabad.

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