Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik on June 3 said that a Supreme Court judge will probe the killing of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who was abducted and killed shortly after he wrote an article about the alleged infiltration of the Pakistan Navy by al Qaida.
“The government will announce a commission within two days to probe the assassination of Saleem Shahzad as a (proposal) in this regard has been moved,” Malik told a group of journalists who were protesting against Shahzad’s murder outside the parliament. Those involved in Shahzad’s killing will be brought to justice soon, he claimed.
Journalists across Pakistan continued their protest against the killing of Shahzad, whose body was found in a canal in Punjab province a day after he was kidnapped from the heart of Islamabad on May 29.