Guardian journalist badly beaten for the second time in Pakistan

Source: The Guardian

Five days after he published an account of abduction and torture by suspected Pakistani intelligence agents, a journalist working for the Guardian has been badly beaten by uniformed men who said they wished to "make an example" of him.

The assault revived concerns about media freedom in Pakistan, one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. Three weeks ago, another reporter, Saleem Shahzad, was beaten to death after disappearing from the capital.

Men wearing police uniforms stopped Waqar Kiani, a 32-year-old local journalist who has worked for the Guardian, as he drove through Islamabad on Saturday night, and ordered him to get out of his car. As he stepped out, four men landed a flurry of blows with fists, wooden batons and a rubber whip. Two others watched from inside the jeep. "They said 'You want to be a hero? We'll make you a hero'," said Kiani, who was recovering from his injuries . "Then they said: 'We're going to make an example of you'."

It was the second time Kiani had been targeted. Last Monday the Guardian revealed he had been abducted from central Islamabad in July 2008, blindfolded and taken to a safe house where interrogators beat him viciously and burned him with cigarettes.

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Pakistan (particularly Punjabi Pakistan) lives for the hatred of India and for a dream that they too can conquer India and turn it into an Islamic country like the muslims of the 12th century did.

Make that dream impossible by a massive air campaign to destroy Pakistan's military apparatus and nukes. Then we can leave both Pakistan and Afghanistan, cut off all aid and bring peace to the subcontinent while making sure that they will never rise again to pull off another 9/11 or 26/11 ever again.

Pakistan is always a problem and never a solution to anything. It is high time we learned it.

Let me off the bus.