BBC journalist reported missing in Pakistan

A BBC journalist went missing today after visiting the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the BBC said, and his brother feared intelligence agents may have kidnapped him.

Dilawar Khan Wazir, a reporter aged in his 30s for the BBC's Urdu-language service, went missing after leaving Islamabad for Dera Ismail Khan, the city where he lived in the North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, the BBC said on its Urdu-language news web site.