Journalists in Pakistan face danger all the time, said a daily on Tuesday, noting this 'climate of threats to journalists is serious and troubling'.
An editorial in the Daily Times referred to the murder of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad 'to faceless murderers because of his hard-hitting reporting.
"It is alleged that the ISI, Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, is behind his death.
"Last week Waqar Kiani, who works for the Guardian, was badly beaten up by men in police uniform in Islamabad who wanted to 'make an example' of him."
It said that Kiani was attacked less than a week after he went public with his account of how he had been picked up and tortured in 2008 by "suspected Pakistani intelligence agents".
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