Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has welcomed the release on March 8 of reporter Khalil Khosa of Azadi, a daily based in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Khosa had been missing for eight days, after failing to return from a news conference in Nasirabad, in the south of the province, on February 29.
Khosa has not described the circumstances of his abduction but he said his kidnappers told him, “Don’t practise this kind of journalism again.” He also told a fellow journalist in Quetta that they were looking for a photo he took during the recent parliamentary election campaign.
His family said at the time of his disappearance that Khosa could have been abducted because of articles criticising certain Baloch nationalist parties.
Azadi is still without news of two other reporters who are believed to have been kidnapped—Hameed Baloch, who went missing on March 3, and Javed Lehri, who went missing on November 30, 2007.
