Police in Sweden say they have found the body of Pakistani journalist, two months after he went missing.
Sajid Hussain, the editor of an ethnic Baloch news website, fled Pakistan in 2012 after getting death threats and was granted political asylum in Sweden.
A press freedom charity had suggested Pakistani intelligence was behind Hussain’s disappearance in early March.
But a Swedish police spokesman told the BBC their initial investigation did not suggest any foul play in the death.
Hussain, who was 39, was last seen boarding a train in Stockholm on his way to the city of Uppsala on 2 March, according to the press freedom charity Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
He was to collect the keys to a new flat but he did not get off the train in Uppsala, RSF said, quoting police. The charity said it was possible he had been abducted “at the behest of a Pakistani intelligence agency”.
In Pakistan, Hussain had been writing about enforced disappearances and organised crime in the country’s Balochistan province, which has witnessed a long-running nationalist insurgency.
