ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: A Karachi journalist who works for Time magazine returned home early on Thursday after going missing two days ago, a family member said.

Family and colleagues said they feared Ghulam Hasnain had been picked up by a security agency or kidnapped by gangsters. A family member declined to say where he had been.

“Yes, Hasnain reached home in the wee hours of Thursday,” the family member told Reuters from Hasnain’s home in Karachi. “He appears to be fine but is not talking much.”

Hasnain, 36, had told friends in recent weeks of warnings and threats from security personnel over an investigative report he wrote for a news monthly in September.

Time magazine news director Howard Chua-Eoan told Reuters from New York on Wednesday that letters were written to the US State Department and the Pakistan government to seek help in finding Hasnain.

Officials were not available for comment on Thursday.—Reuters