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Wed, 06/01/2011 - 16:07
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Rs 2.5 million’s bounty announced on Shehzad’s killers

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced a bounty of Rs 2.5 million on the killers of journalist Saleem Shehzad, vowing that they (killers) would be brought to justice. Malik said this while talking to media here on Wednesday, he added that Saleem Shehzad’s killing was regrettable and the government was reviewing the matter from every aspect.

The Minister went to the house of the slain journalists in Islamabad and condoled with his family, whose body was found from Mandi Bahauddin on Tuesday.

He said that Shehzad’s post-mortem report revealed that he was tortured before being killed.

He said that an investigation committee, headed by a police deputy inspector general, had been formed to probe into the killing, assuring the nation that the facts behind the killing would be unveiled.

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