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| Pakistan reporter Taha Siddiqui flees armed abductors | Pakistan reporter Taha Siddiqui flees armed abductors |
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| A prominent Pakistani journalist has escaped an attempt to abduct him by armed men in the capital Islamabad. | A prominent Pakistani journalist has escaped an attempt to abduct him by armed men in the capital Islamabad. |
| Taha Siddiqui says 10-12 unidentified men beat him and threatened to kill him as he took a cab to the airport. He jumped out of the vehicle, reports say. | |
| The journalist says he is now "safe with police", who are investigating. | The journalist says he is now "safe with police", who are investigating. |
| Mr Siddiqui featured in a recent BBC article about press freedom in Pakistan, one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. | Mr Siddiqui featured in a recent BBC article about press freedom in Pakistan, one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. |
| He said he was on the main Islamabad expressway to the airport when his would-be kidnappers stopped his taxi. | |
| Speaking to the BBC in front of an Islamabad police station where he had given a statement to the authorities, Taha Siddiqui looked still to be in shock, our reporter Secunder Kermani says. | |
| The buttons on his shirt had been ripped off in the struggle, and he was caked in dirt from hiding and crawling through a ditch during his escape. But he promised he would not be silenced. |