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Syed Saleem Shahzad: Suspicions Fall on Pakistan’s ISI in Journalist’s Death

Courageous Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who had scored major scoops on al Qaeda and the Taliban, was abducted and brutally murdered this week. Was the ISI, the country’s shady intelligence agency, to blame? Ron Moreau, Fasih Ahmed, and Marvi Sirmed report on the ISI’s history of intimidation—and why Shahzad’s death may have been a bloody warning to scare off their critics in the media.

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Syed Saleem Shahzad in 2006. (Banaras Khan, AFP / Getty Images)

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