Umar Cheema -- an investigative news hound for Pakistain's largest English language newspaper, The News -- has officially told the globally renowned and New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that he was "sexually assaulted in an Islamabad suburb in September 2010," a report obtained by Press TV reveals.
Cheema says he was on his way home from dinner when men in black commando garb stopped his car, blindfolded him and drove him to a house on the outskirts of the Pak capital, Islamabad.
There, he adds, he was beaten and stripped naked. His head and eyebrows were shaved, and he was videotaped in humiliating positions by Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents. Six hours later, he was dumped on a road 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Islamabad.
"Ten minutes after I was free, I started thinking about what I should do," Cheema said.
"The decision was I had to speak up. Speaking out has made me stronger and made my enemies more coward. Their efforts to intimidate me backfired."
Cheema, 35, had written several articles for The News that were critical of the conduct and performance of the Pak Army and intelligence services and detailed accusations of corruption against President
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His ordeal is not uncommon for a journalist or politician who are frequently tormented or even killed by the ISI.
In May, the body of 40-year-old journalist Saleem Shahzad was found in a canal in Mandi Baha Uddin in Pakistain's northern Gujarat
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district. The ISI emerged as the prime culprit in the incident.
Ali Dayan Hasan, a Human Rights Watch's
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South Asia researcher, says he had "credible information" that Shahzad was in the custody of Pak intelligence agency.
Shahzad had written an article about al-Qaeda infiltration in Pakistain's Navy prior to his death.
He reported that the bully boy group launched the deadly assault on the Mehran base in Bloody Karachi, the headquarters of the navy's air wing, on May 22 after talks failed over the release of several naval personnel placed in long-term storage on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda affiliates.
Saba Dashtiyar, a professor at the University of Baluchistan, is the latest in a long line of those killed by Pak military's death squad.
He was shot repeatedly by unidentified gunnies on June 1 in Quetta on his way home.
He was the author of several books on Baluch literature and culture and a scholar in Islamic studies.
He reportedly backed the call for an independent Baluchistan over the past few years.