Saleem Shahzad

Syed Saleem Shahzad (}}, 3 November 1970 – 30 May 2011) was a Pakistani investigative journalist who wrote widely for leading European and Asian media. He served as the Pakistan Bureau Chief of Asia Times Online (Hong Kong) and Italian news agency Adnkronos (AKI).

He was kidnapped in May 2011 and found dead the next day in a canal in north-east Pakistan, showing signs of torture. Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Pakistan intelligence services of being behind his killing, and Obama Administration officials using CIA intelligence later announced that they had "reliable and conclusive" intelligence that this was the case. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) denied the accusations and called them "totally unfounded". Provided by Wikipedia