Make Pakistan reveal missing journalist alive and safe, Anwar said

PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should ask his Pakistani counterpart to prove that Syed Fawad Ali Shah is alive and safe

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This was after Putrajaya revealed that he was deported last August at the behest of the Pakistani government

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PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should ask his Pakistani counterpart to prove that Syed Fawad Ali Shah is alive and safe

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Fawad had been in exile in Malaysia for 11 years because he feared persecution at home for writing high-profile reviews of Islamabad.

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In a letter to Anwar, lawyer P Waytha Moorthy claimed that the Pakistani authorities were insincere in their request for Fawad's deportation

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Fawad's wife, Syeda, denied that her husband was a police officer after Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said earlier this week

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Waytha said that in 2020, Pakistan had tried to place Fawad on Interpol's purple list, and the global corporation rejected

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"But, the Pakistani government appears to have misled the Malaysian authorities in August 2022 into believing that Fawad was wanted

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