The killing of a Pakistani journalist is fueling speculation of involvement by Pakistan’s intelligence service. Asia Times reporter Saleem Shahzad was found dead two days after going missing in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. His body showed signs of torture. Shahzad had complained of being under threat from Pakistani intelligence and had just published an exposé on last month’s militant attack on a Karachi navy base. A colleague of Shahzad’s said journalists face grave danger in Pakistan.

Zafar Mehmud Sheikh: “A person has to think a hundred times before saying anything, before writing anything, before making a report. Before performing our journalistic duties, we think a hundred times about who will be angered by it, who will be so incensed that he will want to kill you. In the past two-plus years, we have seen that in the entire world the greatest number of journalists were killed in Pakistan.”