Pakistani police said on Friday that Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain, who has been living in exile in Sweden, has been found missing since March 2.

"His body was found on April 23 in the Ferris River outside Uppsala," police spokesman Jonas eronen told AFP.
Hussain, originally from Balochistan, was working part-time as a teacher in Uppsala, about 60 kilometers north of Stockholm, when he disappeared on March 2.

He was also the editor-in-chief of Balochistan Times, a magazine he created on the Internet, where he has written about drug trafficking, enforced disappearance and a protracted insurgency.
eronen said The autopsy dispelled some suspicions that he was the victim of a crime."

A police spokesman added that while crime cannot be completely ruled out, Hussain's death could be the result of an accident or suicide.

As long as the crime cannot be excluded, there is still a risk that his death will be linked to his work as a journalist Swedish chief of staff, Reporter Without Borders, Erik Halkjear, told AFP.

According to RSF, Hussein was last seen riding a train to Uppsala in Stockholm. Hussein arrived in Sweden in 2017 and obtained political asylum in 2019.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry declined to comment when AFP asked her about Hussain.

The Balochistan Times Editorial Board has publicly released news that he has been missing in the Swedish city of Uppsala since March 2 and that an official case has been brought to the Swedish police on March 3.

Taj Baloch, Hussain's friend in Sweden, met a day before his disappearance and said that everything looked fine. The next day, his phone was switched off and he did not answer any calls. The last thing anyone knew about him was when he was in the hostel office, where he got his room key and said he would call back.

The family has expressed deep concern about how a journalist may disappear in a country like Sweden that has always advocated freedom of the press.