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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-10 08:56 AM
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Two ex-ISI men, Brit journalist missing in Pak
Source: Zee News (India)

LAHORE: Two top former ISI officials and a Pakistani-origin British TV journalist have gone missing in the restive North Waziristan tribal region, where they had gone to interview Taliban leaders, including Jalaluddin Haqqani.

Former ISI official Khalid Khwaja, Col (Retd) Imam alias Amir Sultan Tarar, who had also worked in the intelligence agency, and Britain's Channel 4 journalist Asad Qureshi had gone to North Waziristan on March 25 to conduct interview of Haqqani and other Taliban leaders.

"The last call I received from my father was on March 26. He told me that he and his two friends were on their way to North Waziristan to meet Taliban leaders," Osama, the son of Khalid Khwaja, told.

Osama said he feared that his father and the two others had been abducted but was not sure who could be behind such an act.

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