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AFTER having exhausted all other avenues to trace investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad, his brother-in-law reported him missing to the local police station in the small hours of May 30, 2011, exactly 10 years ago this day. He was found the following day. Dead.
On the evening of May 29, Saleem Shahzad left his Islamabad home for a TV station to participate in a programme but he did not reach his destination and inquiries made later showed his phone was switched off some 12 minutes into his journey.
On May 31, 2011, his mortal remains were found by an irrigation worker entangled in the gates of the Upper Jhelum Canal works, a couple of hours drive southeast of Islamabad, and the same day his car was discovered abandoned a short distance away.