Pakistani journalist critical of powerful army abducted, family and government say

FILE PHOTO: Matiullah Jan, a journalist and columnist, gestures during an interview with Reuters at his office in Islamabad, Pakistan March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Men in plainclothes and uniforms of Pakistan's anti-terrorism police on Tuesday abducted a senior journalist who has been a vocal critic of the powerful military, according to his family and the information minister.

"My husband was abducted this morning outside the school (in the capital Islamabad) where I work," Kaneez Sughra, the wife of 51-year-old Matiullah Jan, told Reuters.