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Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan missing in Kenya; friends petition PM Modi to help find Indian TV exec last heard from 90 days ago
19 October 2022
Friends of Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan have appealed to India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to step into the hunt to find the 48-year-old former Indian TV exec, who has gone missing in Kenya.
Khan, who has worked for Star TV, Hooq, Eros Now and Balaji, has not been heard from since 21 July – three days before his planned return to India.
The petition on change.org was started by Rajiv Dubey on 14 October, and has since attracted 5,383 signatures.
Dubey called on Modi to intervene with the government of Kenya “and bring back Zulfi home safe”.
In his public plea, Dubey says Khan has a passion for exploration and that his trip to Kenya “was yet again the explorer in Zulfi wanting to experience a new country”.
“The traveller that he is, Zulfi doesn’t just visit a country or a place – but spends weeks exploring the area, soaking himself into its history and culture,” Dubey says.
Calling Kenyan police “clueless”, Dubey says Khan has been missing for almost 90 days “and yet no one has any idea about his whereabouts. Local police… have been asked by the High Court of the land to produce Zulfi but they have no idea where he is”.
“There are scattershot reports in the Kenyan media where they picked up the wrong LinkedIn profile of another Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and called our Zulfi a “cyber security expert.” Which would be funny if it weren’t scary. Most of the information on him in their media is completely baseless and without any proper research,” Dubey says in his open letter to Modi.
Separately, India’s Ministry of External Affairs has said the search will continue, and that the Indian High Commission remains in touch with Kenyan authorities.
Khan is said to have been travelling in Kenya with another Indian national, Zaid Sami Kidwai, and their local driver. Kidwai and the driver are also missing.
Meanwhile, rumours are flowing thick and fast.
Local reports in India claim that the three were “abducted” by Kenyan state police. Others say th...
Friends of Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan have appealed to India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to step into the hunt to find the 48-year-old former Indian TV exec, who has gone missing in Kenya.
Khan, who has worked for Star TV, Hooq, Eros Now and Balaji, has not been heard from since 21 July – three days before his planned return to India.
The petition on change.org was started by Rajiv Dubey on 14 October, and has since attracted 5,383 signatures.
Dubey called on Modi to intervene with the government of Kenya “and bring back Zulfi home safe”.
In his public plea, Dubey says Khan has a passion for exploration and that his trip to Kenya “was yet again the explorer in Zulfi wanting to experience a new country”.
“The traveller that he is, Zulfi doesn’t just visit a country or a place – but spends weeks exploring the area, soaking himself into its history and culture,” Dubey says.
Calling Kenyan police “clueless”, Dubey says Khan has been missing for almost 90 days “and yet no one has any idea about his whereabouts. Local police… have been asked by the High Court of the land to produce Zulfi but they have no idea where he is”.
“There are scattershot reports in the Kenyan media where they picked up the wrong LinkedIn profile of another Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and called our Zulfi a “cyber security expert.” Which would be funny if it weren’t scary. Most of the information on him in their media is completely baseless and without any proper research,” Dubey says in his open letter to Modi.
Separately, India’s Ministry of External Affairs has said the search will continue, and that the Indian High Commission remains in touch with Kenyan authorities.
Khan is said to have been travelling in Kenya with another Indian national, Zaid Sami Kidwai, and their local driver. Kidwai and the driver are also missing.
Meanwhile, rumours are flowing thick and fast.
Local reports in India claim that the three were “abducted” by Kenyan state police. Others say they went missing after leaving a Nairobi nightclub. Among the rumours is that Khan and Kidwai were involved in the comms/tech initiatives of the re-election campaign for Kenyan president William Ruto, and got caught up in political fallout.
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