Pakistan - British journalist freed after five months as hostage in Tribal Areas

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very relieved to learn that British journalist Asad Qureshi was released today after being held hostage by a militant group in northwestern Pakistan for the past five and a half months. Qureshi, who had been working on a documentary on the Taliban insurrection for Britain's Channel 4 television, was kidnapped along with two former Pakistani military intelligence officers on 25 March 2010 in the North Waziristan tribal area. Reporters Without Borders did not say (...)

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