A Pakistani television journalist who had been missing for over four months following his arrest has been released and returned home, according to law enforcement officials.
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Pakistan's security agencies have a notorious reputation for detaining individuals without producing them before the courts, as legally required. His relatives said after his arrest that they were unable to determine his whereabouts and feared he had been abducted. Pakistan's security agencies are notorious for holding people without producing them before the courts as required by law.
Hamid Mir, another prominent TV journalist, confirmed that Khan had reached his home in Lahore. Khan's lawyer, Mian Ali Ashfaq, also confirmed his client's freedom on social media but didn't say where he had been. Khan has more than 5 million followers on X and is highly popular among supporters of the former prime ministerin April 2022 and is now the country’s leading opposition figure.
Before his arrest, the former prime minister had campaigned for the release of the TV journalist, who had written extensively about and produced TV shows in support of Imran Khan before he disappeared.Last Thursday, agents from the Federal Investigation Agency arrested an Islamabad-based TV anchor, Khalid Jamil, who is known for criticizing the authorities, on charges of spreading false information about state institutions on social media.
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