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Pakistan author's murder condemned
Pakistan's human rights commission says it has launched an investigation into the murder of the author, Fazal Wahab, whose work was critical of radical Islam. The commission's chairman, Afrasiab Khattak, told the BBC he was extremely alarmed by the circumstances of Mr Wahab's murder on Tuesday. Mr Wahab, an outspoken critic of radical Islamic clerics, was shot dead in the hill resort of Mingora, in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, too has expressed deep concern at the author's murder. This is what life under gangsters looks like. If you diss Mister Big, you get banged... Pakistani police failed to give him any protection although he had complained that he was receiving death threats, Amnesty said in a report on Saturday. The police have not taken any action to find his killers or protect his family from further attacks, the report added. And this is why people in some areas have to live under the control of gangsters... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-25 |
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