QUETTA: A journalist was abducted by 10 armed persons within the precincts of Shahbaz Town police in Quetta on Tuesday. Afzal Mughal, a resident of Shahbaz Town, was working as sub-editor in a local news agency. His wife lodged a complaint with the local police that ten masked men broke into her house at midnight and held hostage family members at gunpoint. She told police the armed men tortured her husband and kidnapped him. The police have registered a case and started investigation.