Journalist Mansoor Khan is safe: Pakistan

Kabul, Aug 5: Pakistani journalist Anas Mallick, who went missing in Afghanistan, is safe, Islamabad’s Ambassador here Mansoor Ahmad Khan said on Friday.

According to media reports, the journalist disappeared in Kabul on Thursday.

“I have just talked to him on (the) phone briefly. He is in Kabul and safe,” tweeted Khan. The Pakistani journalist is affiliated with an Indian news channel.

He also tweeted that he was ?back? but did not share details.

Mallick went missing after filing a story over Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri who was killed in an US air strike.

(UNI)