Reporters Without Borders said a Pakistani refugee journalist in the Kingdom of Sweden had been missing for about a month, possibly because his disappearance was linked to his photo investigations on Balochistan, the troubled state in Pakistan.
Sajid Hussain, who hails from this southwestern region of Pakistan, lived and worked partly as a professor in Uppsala, Sweden, when he disappeared. He was the editor-in-chief of the Baluchistan Times online magazine.
The organization said the journalist was last seen on 2 March on a train in Stockholm to fly to Uppsala "to receive the keys to his new apartment."
"No one, including his family, has had news about him since then," said Eric Halkeere, head of the Swedish branch of the organization.
The organization promised to say it did not have accurate information about his disappearance, but it did not exclude the ISI hypothesis.
"Reporters Without Borders" made it clear in a statement that the Baluchistan Times "covers human rights violations and other aspects of the situation in Balochistan where rebel groups are active, and the army only allows its own version of events to be published."
Hussein is a well-known journalist in Balochistan, and his work focuses especially on drug trafficking, enforced disappearances and insurrection in the region.
And the human rights organization affirms that the Pakistani Military Intelligence Agency has a list of the registered journalists in exile.
Hussein arrived in Sweden in 2017 before the country's authorities granted him asylum in 2019.
A police spokesman said that the kingdom’s authorities are actively investigating the journalist’s disappearance, based on a number of hypotheses, without further details.