Washington: The United States condemned the killing of Pakistani Journalist Saleem Shehzad who was abducted from Islamabad and was found dead some 150 kilometer from the capital on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statement said the US strongly condemns the abduction and killing of reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad.
“His work reporting on terrorism and intelligence issues in Pakistan brought to light the troubles extremism poses to Pakistan’s stability,” she said.
Clinton said Washington welcomed Pakistan’s launch of an investigation into the killing.
Shahzad, 40, who worked for an Italian news agency and an online news site registered in Hong Kong, went missing on Sunday. His body was found 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast of Islamabad.
He disappeared two days after writing in an investigative report in Asia Times Online that Al-Qaeda carried out last week’s attack on a naval air base to avenge the arrest of naval officials suspected of having links to the group.
The May 22 attack took 17 hours to repel, and officials said six militants destroyed two US-made surveillance aircraft and killed 10 security personnel.
The country’s umbrella Taliban faction claimed responsibility, saying the attack was carried out to avenge the US killing of Osama bin Laden, which reopened questions about complicity with Al-Qaeda within the military.
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