Unexplained absence: Urdu daily’s reporter goes missing

The reporter had left her house as per routine to go to work, but her office says she is on leave.

PESHAWAR: A reporter of a Urdu daily newspaper has been missing from the city since Friday night.

Reporter Safia Naz’s father told the police that she left for work on Friday morning but when he called her office at night to enquire about her whereabouts he was told she was on leave.

“We have starting looking for her,” said an official of the Yakatot police station while talking to The Express Tribune. “She was working as a reporter for Urdu daily Ghazi for the past year after completing her BA,” he said.

The official added the newspaper is not very well known and its offices are located in Sikandarpura. “Her father told us she left for the office in the morning as per her routine and told him to get her a rickshaw but it turns out she had taken a leave from the office,” he said.