From the NEW YORK TIMES:
Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country’s military, according to American officials.
New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahzad, 40, from the capital, Islamabad, and after the discovery of his mortally wounded body, showed that senior officials of the spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, directed the attack on him in an effort to silence criticism, two senior administration officials said…
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Pakistani Military including the ISI has always been the strongest and the most influential institution in the country’s political milieu. Where the population of more than 160 million people has been on multiple occasions silenced at the whims of the Generals (by killing democratically elected leaders), it would be incomprehensible to demand justice.
Has anyone ever asked what the common man in that country wants? Is it 20billion dollars for strengthening the same institution that has given the country nothing except for robbing it from it’s right to practice democracy or education, better economy, peace and justice?
It is occasions like these that helps the political slander from Indian fronts and, instead of helping the people of the same kind, they use these forums to incriminate the entire country as terrorist, the people from the same background who more often than not share friendship in alien lands and work in the same institutions as colleagues. That is very unfortunate.