From Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Jun 7 (PTI) The call record of slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad's cellular phone has been erased, with the log of the 18 days before his abduction and murder being wiped out from the system, a media report said today.
The last call made by Shahzad that is reflected in the log was on May 12, seventeen days before his abduction on May 29, according to data obtained by The Express Tribune newspaper.
Hamza Ameer, the brother-in-law of the slain journalist, said he had found Shahzad's mobile phone switched off when he tried to contact him at 5:42 pm on May 29.
Shahzad made his last call, according to the data, on May 12 near a cell phone tower installed atop a bank in Islamabad's Blue Area.
Shahzad, according to the cellular phone data, was in Islamabad between May 1 and May 12.