The strange case of Nayyar Zaidi —Khalid Hasan
Nayyar Zaidi, who has lived in the United States for the last thirty-five years and who is one of the most prolific of our journalists, vanished around spring this year. None of the small band of those who write for Pakistani newspapers noticed his disappearance for some time, but since I was the one most in contact with him, I began to ask others if they had run into Nayyar.
Nobody had. Phone calls to his family produced vague answers. The embassy did not know either, including its cloak-and-dagger men, who tend to keep an eye on us rather than on the heavy presence of their counterparts from our great neighbour to the east.
About two months ago, Irshad Salim, who runs Des Pardes, an online paper from New Jersey, reported that Nayyar was in a US federal prison in Ohio, which is hundreds of miles from here. The news was so startling that we simply could not believe it.
Why was he there, was the first question that came to our lips. He was there, so the arresting authorities claimed, because he had crossed state lines with the intention of committing a felony, the felony being an attempt to obtain sex from a minor. The minor did not exist as it was a sting, a police trap laid through the Internet. All this has been very hard on his family and his friends, especially because this is the last thing anybody would have expected or anybody is willing to believe.The strange case of Nayyar Zaidi —Khalid Hasan
Nobody had. Phone calls to his family produced vague answers. The embassy did not know either, including its cloak-and-dagger men, who tend to keep an eye on us rather than on the heavy presence of their counterparts from our great neighbour to the east.
About two months ago, Irshad Salim, who runs Des Pardes, an online paper from New Jersey, reported that Nayyar was in a US federal prison in Ohio, which is hundreds of miles from here. The news was so startling that we simply could not believe it.
Why was he there, was the first question that came to our lips. He was there, so the arresting authorities claimed, because he had crossed state lines with the intention of committing a felony, the felony being an attempt to obtain sex from a minor. The minor did not exist as it was a sting, a police trap laid through the Internet. All this has been very hard on his family and his friends, especially because this is the last thing anybody would have expected or anybody is willing to believe.The strange case of Nayyar Zaidi —Khalid Hasan
posted by temporal at 9/14/2008
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Nayyar Zaidi is a prominent journalist not only in Pakistan but in the US as well. He is the one that CNN and other foreign networks call when they need a Middle East expert. Because Zaidi tells the story like it is---some find him a threat to national security---his columns are written with full reasoning and evidence! It is time for all of us to speak up and defend our rights in this so-called country that preaches "freedom and human right." God give Zaidi the strenght to get through this!!!This charge of molestation is absurd and makes anyone who knows Zaidi laugh...he is a father of five and grandfather and couldn't they think of anything better???God help them, too!!
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