A sindhi newspaper Kawish's staff reporter ilyas warsi was found dead in his locked room on Saturday. Sources said that some unidentified assailants killed senior journalist Ilyas Warsi in Hyderabad, police have confirmed.
According to police, the body of deceased journalist Ilyas Warsi was found from his flat.
Ilyas Warsi had been associated to Sindh Daily for a long time.
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President G.M. Jamali has strongly condemned the brutal murder of senior journalist Ilyas Warsi in Hyderabad here today.
Warsi, who was affiliated to the Sindhi daily Kawish newspaper, was found dead in his apartment adjacent to Al-Raheem Shopping Centre in Hyderabad.
According to a family source, Warsi had left for his home from Hyderabad Press Club at around 6 PM. Warsi’s son told the police that when he reached the apartment, it was locked from inside. He knocked at the door but there was no response upon which he called others and force opened the door where he found his father’s dead body.
“The journalist was murdered using an edge tool,” police said, adding that the killers and motive behind the murder remains unknown.
Warsi was former president of Hyderabad Press Club and had been affiliated with many national and international journalist unions.
