Journalist who received death threats after uncovering local corruption found strangled in canal

Aziz Memon’s death has sparked outrage in a country where, too often, journalists are killed with impunity. Adam Withnall reports

An employee of a local television channel shows a picture of slain journalist Aziz Memon, in Hyderabad, Pakistan (AP)

A journalist in Pakistan has been found dead in a canal just months after he reported he was receiving death threats for his coverage of alleged corruption in local politics.

Aziz Memon’s body was recovered from a waterway in Mehrabpur village in the south-western Sindh province, with clear signs that he died from strangulation, hours after he went missing while travelling to cover a story on Sunday.

Memon worked as a reporter for the local Sindhi-language Kawish Television Network (KTN) and the Kawish newspaper. Police chief Mohammad Farooq said no one had immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction and killing, and that an investigation was under way.