ISLAMABAD: Border Security forces have found Zeenat Shahzadi, the female journalist who went missing in Lahore in August 2015 as tracing an Indian prisoner indicted of spying.
Mentioning here that non-state actors and enemy agencies had abducted Zeenat and that she was recovered from them, Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal, chief of Pakistan's missing persons commission, said on Friday, "Tribal elders in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa played an important role in her recovery on Wednesday night from near the Pak-Af border."
Zeenat's family members and human rights organizations had previously told that they believed she was captured by Pakistan's secret agencies.
25-year-old Zeenat is a freelance reporter who had raised her voice for missing persons in Pakistan. During social media conversation, she came in touch with Fauzia Ansari, the mother of Hamid Ansari, an Indian national who had gone missing in Pakistan.
She had filed an application with the Pakistan Supreme Court's human rights cell on behalf of Fauzia Ansari and played an imperative role in encouraging the government Commission of investigation on Enforced Disappearances to examine his case.
Shahzad's family had once told human rights activists that before her kidnapping she had been by force taken away by the security agencies, seized for four hours and questioned about Hamid Ansari.
In 2015, Hamid was behind the bars for three years by a military court on spying charges. In The same year Shahzadi, too, went missing. Her disappearance hit the headlines when her sibling, Saddam, killed himself in March 2016.
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