Islamabad: Former Pakistan Foreign Secretary
Niaz A Naik, who was involved in back-channel diplomacy with
India during the 1999 Kargil conflict, has been tortured and
murdered by unidentified persons at his residence here, police
said on Saturday.
Naik`s body was found in his home in the heart of the
Pakistani capital
.
The revelation that he has been murdered marked a
turnaround from a police spokesman`s earlier statement that
there were no marks of injury on the former diplomat`s body.
Naik, 70, was unmarried and had been living alone in his house
in a neighbourhood in central Islamabad for a long time.
A post-mortem examination of Naik`s body revealed he was
tortured before being killed, said police officials and
doctors who performed the autopsy.
Naik was hit with a sharp and heavy object and there were
signs of torture on his neck. Four ribs and the jaw were
fractured and the lungs were damaged, the autopsy report said.
Naik, who also served as High Commissioner to India and
was involved in back-channel diplomacy during the Kargil
conflict of 1999, apparently died three to four days ago,
police said. Police officials said they were trying to
ascertain the motive behind the murder.
Bureau Report
