“He [Imran Riaz Khan] returned home safely this morning [Monday],” Khan’s younger brother Usman Riaz Khan told Al Jazeera. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Sialkot police wrote that Khan was "found safe and sound" and was now with his family. However, the police did not provide any information about where the journalist was found. Khan 's lawyer, Mian Ashfaq Ali, told Al Jazeera that it took a long time for the journalist to return due to "countless difficulties and a weak justice system". Khan's arrest came two days after deadly violence erupted in Pakistan to protest the arrest of Imran Khan on corruption charges. Four days after the arrest, police told the Lahore court that the journalist had been released within 24 hours. However, there was no trace of him and the police denied having him in custody. No one claimed responsibility for Khan's disappearance, but many believed he had been kidnapped by security agencies controlled by the countr...