Zeenat Shahzadi Photo: BBC
Journalist Zeenat Shahzadi, whose mysterious disappearance from Lahore a couple of years ago, puzzled the media circles, has been recovered from Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Reports say Shahzadi, who had gone missing in 2015, has been recovered from the restive region.
Dawn newspaper reported that Retired Justice Javed Iqbal, head of the missing persons commission, confirmed Shahzadi’s return while speaking to BBC Urdu.
According to a report the National Accountability Bureau chief said that some non-state actors and enemy agencies had kidnapped her and she was recovered from them.
He said tribal elders in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa played an important role in her recovery.
But the reason for her disappearance still remains a mystery, although the newspaper reported that Shahzadi may have been caught by Pakistani security agencies when she trailed an Indian citizen Hamid Ansari in August 2015. But there has been no definitive account of her disappearance, and there has been no word from the journalist since her freedom from captivity.
Her disappearance led to a terrible tragedy in the family when last year Shahzadi’s teenage brother, emotionally attached to his sister, committed suicide.
