Malik puts Rs 2.5 millions bounty on Shehzads killers

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Malik puts Rs 2.5 millions bounty on Shehzads killers

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The Interior minister vowed that the killers of Saleem Shehzad would be brought to justice.

01 June,2011 11:50 am

Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced a bounty of Rs 2.5 million on the killers of journalist Saleem Shezad, whose body was found from Mandi Bahauddin.The minister went to the house of the slain journalists in Islamabad and condoled with the his family.Talking to the media, Malik said that Saleem Shehzad’s killing was regrettable and the government was reviewing the matter from every aspect.He said that Shehzad’s postmortem report revealed that he was tortured before being killed.He said that an investigation committee, headed by a police deputy inspector general, had been formed to probe into the killing and assured the nation that the facts behind the killing would be unveiled.