Journalist, Wife Slaughtered In City and Media personnel are under in danger in Bangladesh

Assailants killed a journalist and his wife by slitting their throat in their house at Naya Paltan in Dhaka on Friday last.
The deceased were Ishaq Farhad Kha, 65, assistant editor of the daily Janata and his wife Rahima Khatun, 55.
The police said that they had broken into the house, which was locked up from the outside, on the first floor of the thee-storey building and found the couple dead about 5:30pm.
Relatives of the deceased earlier called in the police after they had found their mobiles not being answered for about 16 hours beginning 10:00pm Thursday.
Body of Ishaq was lying on the floor and the body of his wife was on the bed, the police said.
Ishaq, father of a daughter, retired three years ago as a librarian in the Directorate of Cooperatives, the relatives said.
Ishaq's younger brother Abdus Samad Khan told reporters that he had talked with his brother last on Thursday night.
'I talked with him about 10:00pm Thursday. I could not contact him after that as the mobiles were not being answered. I came to know from his friends that the door was locked from the outside. I then informed the police of the matter and went to the house about 5:30pm today,' Samad said on Friday.
Samad said that the assailants had looted all the valuables from the house by breaking the steel almirah.
'All the valuables were looted. But I could not establish what are the things that were looted,' he said.
He said that the couple had returned to the country after staying for two months in Italy, where their daughter Irene has been living with her husband for five years.
He said that his brother had no rivalry with anybody.
Ishaq, the founding president of the Bangladesh Writers' Association, had worked as subeditor with the daily Millat and Banglar Bani for several years.
Babul Ahmed Parvez, one of Ishaq's friends, told reporters that it was a murder as the assailants had locked the door from the outside after killing them.
Sources said Rahima was involved in the politics of the Jatiya Party.
Another source said that in December, a cousin of Rahima was killed in Tangail said to be on political grounds. Ishaq was from Ghandhina of Kalihati in Tangail.
A Criminal Investigation Department team collected evidences from the house. A team of the Detective Branch and the Rapid Action Battalion also visited the scene.
Motijheel zone police assistant commissioner Abdul Momin told reporters that they had suspected that the couple might have been killed during robbery in the house.
The bodies were in the house till 9:00pm. No case was filed till then.
According to the police, 27 people, including leaders of the ruling Awami League and the opposition BNP, were killed in the capital city this month

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