On May 27, 2011, the Pakistan Bureau chief for the Asian Times Online, Syed Saleem Shahzad, published the first of a two-part investigative report on the attack on PNS Mehran Naval Air Station in Karachi, Pakistan. On May 31, 2011, after (unconfirmed) rumors that he had been arrested by the ISI, Shahzad's body was found dumped in a canal not far from his vehicle.
One of the core beliefs of liberalism is speaking truth to power. And I think most recognize that doing so sometimes entails certain risks...to freedom, or even to life. The only way to fight against such crimes as what happened to Saleem Shahzad is to make sure that the truth he was speaking through his reporting becomes a deafening roar in the halls of power, whether they be in Washington, D.C. or Islamabad.
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