Alleged murderer in anchor Mureed Abbas case coercing journalists.

According to a news anchor, journalists are being threatened by an alleged murderer and his brother to discourage them from covering the judicial proceedings of the murder of a news anchor in Karachi.

Through a video upload on Twitter, Zaara Abbas Kher, the wife of the murdered anchor Mureed Abbas, made the accusation against Atif Zaman. Zaman is the prime suspect in the murder of Kher's husband, who is herself also a news anchor. Kher includes Zaman's family in collaborating with the murder suspect to pressurize journalists.

"You must have seen how fresh the suspect looks when he attends court proceedings," she said. "He's smoking freely, he has a lighter and is given mineral water to drink as well," she added.

Mureed Abbas was affiliated as a news anchor of a private news channel, and was killed in a cafe on the Khayaban-e-Bukhari commercial area. His friend, Khizar, was also killed in the incident.

Kher says that her husband Abbas invested 5 million ruppees in a tyre business that Zaman had set up, and had asked Zaman to return his investment.

The deceased's wife, who is also a TV anchor, said that her husband invested Rs5 million in Zaman's tyre business and was...