ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist Waheed Murad was allegedly abducted from his residence in Islamabad’s Sector G-8 in the wee hours of Wednesday, his wife confirmed.
In a post on social media site X, Murad’s wife, Shinza Nawaz, said that masked men took her husband at 2 a.m. last night. “They kept asking repeatedly, ‘Where is his wife?’”
“My mother, who has a heart condition, was also at home. She was also mistreated and pushed, and they also took her and Waheed’s phone and some papers,” she wrote.
His wife told a local publication that men in black uniforms forcibly entered the house and accused her husband of being an Afghan and whisked him away in a black “dala”.
Later, Murad’s mother-in-law filed a habeas corpus petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for the missing journalist’s recovery via Advocates Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha.
The interior secretary, defence secretary, Islamabad inspector general of police, and the station house officer (SHO) of Karachi Company police station have been named as respondents in the plea.
The petition requests an immediate order for the recovery of Murad and legal action against those involved in his unlawful abduction.
Prominent journalists and members of the media community condemned Waheed Murad’s abduction and called for his immediate recovery.
