Actor Malisha Heena Khan claims her cousin was murdered by Pak ISI agents in Karachi’s Clifton area

KARACHI: In a very shocking claim, an Afghani-Pak actress currently living in India, Malisha Heena Khan, has alleged her 28-year-old male cousin was secretly murdered by either the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agents or their operatives or thugs, in an upmarket area of Karachi ahout two weeks ago.

Elaborating further, Malisha Heena Khan told this correspondent on phone from an undisclosed location in North India, near the National Capital region, where she is presently based, that her cousin was murdered and his mortal remains secretly disposed off, on the orders of the highest authorities in the Pakistani military establishment and the spy agency, for his pioneering work in Afghanistan as a freelance journalist for several Western media houses, during the Taliban takeover in August.

She claimed her cousin who was earlier working as a reporter in Afghanistan, had exposed the links and role of the Pakistani army and the ISI in the Taliban takeover of Kabul and the tacit collusion between the Pakistani ISI, the Haqqani network and the ISIS-K during the American evacuation of thousands of citizens and refugees from Kabul in August this year. Malisha stated her cousin had exposed former ISI chief Faiz Hameed in his reports and articles and doubts Hameed’s role in the disappearance of her relative.

She said her cousin moved to a rented apartment in the Clifton area of Karachi in the first week of October, as he wanted to take a break from journalism (and fighting) and pursue research in either Architecture or Archeology. She last spoke to her cousin on 9th October and his phone was switched after that.

Malisha Heena Khan alleged that the Pakistani spy agency abducted her cousin and killed him for his controversial reports against the Pakistani military establishment. None of her friends and contacts in Karachi have been able to locate the whereabouts of her cousin and have no clue as to what happened to him.

Earlier, four members of her family were killed in August this year, during the Taliban takeover of Kabul and the fighting between Afghani forces and the Taliban.