A Pakistan journalist living in exile in Swed🐈en who has been missing since March has been found dead, police sa⛦id Friday.
"His body was found on April 23 in the Fyris river ou✱tside Uppsala," police spokesman Jonas Eronen told AFP.
Sajid Hussain, from the troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan, was working part-time as a professor🌊 in Uppsala, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Stockholm, when he went miss♑ing on March 2.
He was also the chief editor of the Baluchistan Times, an online magazine he had set up, in which h💮e wrote about drug trafficking, forced disappearances andജ a long-running insurgency.
"The autopsy has dispelled some of the susp🐠icion that he was the victim of a crime," Erone🌠n said.
The police spokesman added that while a crime could not be completely ruled out, Hus🍸sain's death could equally have been the result of an accident or a su꧃icide.
"As long as a crime cannot🐠 be excluded, there remains the risk that his death is linked to his work as a journalist," Erik Halkjaer, head of the Swedish branch of Reporters without Borders (RSF), told AFP.
According to the RSF, Hussain was last seen getting onto a ♕train for Uppsala in Stockholm.
Hussain came to S꧒weden 𒊎in 2017 and secured political asylum in 2019.
The Pakistan foreign ministry declined to comme𒊎nt when asked about Hussain by AFP.
