Dhaka, March 28 -- A journalist known for criticizing Pakistan's powerful army was charged with sharing disinformation online on Wednesday.
Muhammad Waheed Murad, a reporter for Saudi-owned Urdu News, was charged hours after his family had said that he was abducted from his home by intelligence officials in an early morning raid.
He is the second reporter in a matter of days to be accused under Pakistan's toughened laws against content online.
Murad, who has been charged with "cyber terrorism" and disseminating "false and fake information," has been remanded in custody for two days, AFP news agency reported.
He was arrested after more than a dozen masked men stormed his home in Islamabad early Wednesday morning, his wife and mother-in-l...