Pak bureau chief of Indian TV channel escapes |
The Pakistan correspondent of an Indian TV channel was recently forcibly piled into a car by "10-12 armed men" and beaten up before he managed to jump off the speeding car on a busy motorway. Taha Siddiqui, who is the Pakistan bureau chief of WION (World Is One), had been receiving insistent messages from Pakistan`s Fedeal Investigation Agency`s counter-terror wing since May 2017 to appear before it for his comments on social media against the military. Islamabad Police ordered a probe into the "kidnapping attempt" following a complaint by Siddiqui. Journalist Asad Hashim, who accompanied Siddiqui to the police station, tweeted that Siddiqui was "beaten (and) threatened with death". "He (Siddiqui) only escaped by running through oncoming traffic," Hashim said in another tweet. Later, Siddiqui posted a message via Dawn journalist Cyril Almeida`s Twitter account, recalling the details of the kidnapping attempt. "I was on my way to airport today at 8:20 am when 10-12 armed men stopped my cab, forcibly tried to abduct me. "He further said that he had managed to escape the kidnapping attempt and that he was "safe and with the police now".
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