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| A Pakistani journalist who was feared abducted after he went missing on Sunday has been found dead, his family has confirmed. | A Pakistani journalist who was feared abducted after he went missing on Sunday has been found dead, his family has confirmed. |
| Police said Saleem Shahzad's body was found in a canal in Mandi Baha Uddin in Pakistan's northern Gujarat district. | |
| Earlier, Human Rights Watch researcher Ali Dayan Hasan said he had "credible information" that Mr Shahzad was in the custody of Pakistani intelligence. | |
| He recently wrote an href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ME27Df06.html" >article about al-Qaeda infiltration in Pakistan's navy. | |
| It followed an attack earlier this month on the PNS Mehran base in the southern city of Karachi, the headquarters of the navy's air wing, which embarrassed the military. | |
| 'ISI threats' | |
| Shahzad's family said he had disappeared after leaving his home in Islamabad on Sunday evening for an interview at a television station. | |
| They immediately issued statements saying they feared for his safety. | |
| Shahzad's body was found in a canal in the Sarai Alamgir area of Mandi Baha Uddin, some 150km (93 miles) south-east of the capital. | |
| The head of Margalla police station in Islamabad, Fayaz Tanoli, told the BBC that the local police force took photographs of the body and informed his officers on Monday that it might be Shahzad's. | |
| The photographs were shown to Shahzad's brother-in-law, Hamza Amir, who identified the remains. Police said he had cuts to his face. | |
| Relatives later travelled to Sarai Alamgir to confirm he was dead. | |
| Mr Hasan of Human Rights Watch said Shahzad had recently complained about being threatened by the intelligence arm of the Pakistan military, the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). | |
| "He visited our office and informed us that the ISI had threatened him. He told us that if anything happened to him, we should inform the media about the situation and threats," he told the AFP news agency. | |
| "We can form an opinion after the investigation and a court verdict, but... in the past, the ISI has been involved in similar incidents." | |
| There has so far been no comment by the authorities on the allegation that Shahzad might have been in ISI custody prior to his death. | |
| Shahzad, who had a wife and three children, worked for the Italian news agency Adnkronos and was Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online. | |
| Human rights groups recently called Pakistan the most dangerous place in the world for journalists to operate, saying they were under threat from Islamist militants but also Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies. |