| Honourable Chief Justice | | Abdul Waheed Khan Birmingham, UK awkhan_24@hotmail.co.uk | | I am a Pakistani and now living in the "United Kingdom" for the last few years. I would like to draw attention to the authorities, especially the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan, that one-year ago my elder brother Malik Mohammad Ismail Khan, a veteran journalist was brutally murdered in Islamabad the federal capital of Pakistan under mysterious circumstances. The police are still clueless and there is no headway in the whole investigation. My fifty three year old elder brother Malik Ismail Khan Shaheed was in journalism for the last thirty years and he was working as a Resident Editor of an independent national news agency Pakistan Press International (PPI) at Islamabad, at the time of his brutal murder by unidentified people on the midnight of 31st October/01st November 2006. He had no enmity or personal conflict with any one. During his career he worked with prominent media organisations including Daily "The Muslim", daily "The Frontier Post", News agencies "Online" and "PPI". He started his career in journalism as a Reporter from Attock in 1976, and worked his way up to Peshawar and Islamabad as a Senior Staff Reporter, Chief Reporter, Editor Reporting, Bureau Chief and Resident Editor till his sudden blow, which has devastated our whole family. He was an honest, upright, fearless and a conscientious journalist and was widely admired and respected in the community of journalists for his qualities of character and professionalism. He was a much loved and respected, son, brother, uncle, husband, father and grand father, he will be dearly missed and our family will not be able to come to terms with how he died until his killers are found and punished. According to the Police his body was found from the green belt area of F-6/1 (which is some thirty/forty feet away from Shaheed-e-Millets Road not so far away from his office "PPI") near a busy Super Market, as an unknown person, in the morning on Wednesday 01st November 2006 and was moved straight away to the "PIMS" (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences) for autopsy, without any detailed forensic search of the scene. Whilst his identity cards and other possessions were in his waistcoat, which was found by the police later on in the day, and then they told "PPI" office and our family members in the afternoon. The murderers took only his mobile phone, which is still missing and many phone calls made and received by him are not listed in the incoming and outgoing details. Doctor Wasim A Khawaja of "PIMS" who did the autopsy stated that "it was a target killing and there were very clear marks on both of his wrists". There were also very clear finger print marks on his face near his mouth, showing that he had been gagged, and there was a (bruise) little round mark on the left side of his chest above the heart. The Doctor said that he had been killed after being tied up and abducted because there were no signs of resistance on his hands etc. Kohsar Police Station in Islamabad registered an FIR No.466 dated 01.11.2006 under section 302/34 PP against unknown assailants on the complaint of his son and started the investigation but even after the passing of one year, the capital's police have no clue and headway. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) also done an investigation but nothing has come from their investigation too. Even though the Ministers and Government Officials have claimed that the actual culprits will be caught very soon, and after the noisy protest of the journalist community, Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr Shaukat Aziz, and Federal Interior Minister Mr. Aftab Ahmad Khan, have been ordered two separate inquiries for a full investigation, and under the chair of Federal Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah, a joint interrogation team was set up but nothing has come from any inquiry or interrogations. The fact of the matter is that, after a year of the brutal murder of a senior journalist who was such a very kind, humble and caring person, there is no headway or any clue as to finding the actual murderers because the investigative departments have not done their work properly. They have ruined the whole investigation. We appeal through your newspaper to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take "Sou Moto Action" into the brutal murder of a senior journalist and provide justice to our family in finding the actual murderers and bringing them to exemplary punishment. I request and hope that you will publish my Appeal for Justice in your earliest publication. | |
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