Saleem Shahzad's laptop recovered
The laptop and phone records of Shahzad had been reported missing after his murder in May this year. The commission earlier was successful in getting access to his phone but the laptop remained missing.
Chairman Justice Saqib Nisar chaired the commission session in Islamabad on Wednesday, during which different angles for investigation into the murder of Shahzad were reviewed.
Briefing the media after the session, one of the commission members Pervaiz Shaukat, who is also the president of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), said that the record of Shahzad’s laptop was not accessible in the past.
He said that Justice Nisar has directed all members to submit their recommendations till Tuesday, while the final shape will be given to the report during the month of November.
The commission is headed by Supreme Court Justice Nisar while members include Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court Agha Rafiq Ahmad, Inspector-General of Islamabad Police Bani Amin, Inspector-General of Punjab Police Javed Iqbal and President PFUJ.
Shahzad, who worked for an Italian news agency and a Hong Kong-registered news site and had reported about militants infiltrating the military, went missing en route to a television talk show and his body was found May 31 south of the capital, bearing marks of torture.
The journalist disappeared two days after writing an investigative report in Asia Times Online saying al Qaeda carried out a recent attack on a naval air base to avenge the arrest of naval officials held on suspicion of al Qaeda links. Intelligence agencies were blamed for his murder.
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Disgusting where to tell the truth is a crime/
How the commission would ensure that the found devices are of Saleem Shahzad and not copy of it ?
In digital world, everything is possible.
we just somehow have become very intolerant in every walk of life... this murder was one more proof of that. Laptops and mobile etc are gonna reveal nothing. Its all just waste of time.
May be the laptop should be placed at the Pakistan press association's head office as an example to show, how to be a brave journalist, so that rest of them gain guts to write against suppressing enterprises.
@Bangash: Perhaps you could tell us how you know this!
@Bangash:
lol.. It might also say Israel was paying him to report against the Military.
It ir funny and amazing to think the the persons or agency who was involved in killing the daring Shaheed jounalist will leave any proof in laptop.After all the killer is so influential that even the police, media and offifials are afraid to name the killer.We all know that the most offended from Salim Shehzad was ISI itself.There should be no doubt that the ISI is involved.We must speak up to save Pakistan otherwise be ready for another Bangladesh.
Laptop will point to Indian RAW as the killer of Syed Saleem Shahzad.
Can some one tell us how the laptop was found?
@observer: I agree with you. It was sanitized and returned so that the judicial commission can declare that there was no evidence against the "sanitizers". Regards, Mirza
It seems those commissions always get their evidence at the convenience of the accused. That is kind of counter productive. You may as well just tell a murderer to hold onto the weapon he used and to bring it in at his own leisure.
I don't think so a laptop recovered after months could do any good to the Forensic experts.
I guess once the Laptop was 'sanitised' there was no harm in giving it to the commission. Who sanitised it? Go figure.
Asma Jahangir and the similar HRW grups staging a comeback to accuse ISI and the Army for holding laptop in their custody, modifying its contents and then returning back just to make sure the job is well done.
Sincerely, A Military Brat
What is the value of the laptop if it took so many months to recover it? What is the guarantee that it has all the evidence? May be this late recovery would prove that there is no evidence against the establishment and again a whole lot of nothing would come out of this investigation as well.
Why did ET and other newspapers let this issue die -- one of your own was kidnapped, tortured and murdered and you let this slide off the front page?