Today marks Alan Johnston's 100 days in captivity. It is very painful for a reporter as well as to all the conscious citizens that a news reporter is still in captivity. Mr. Johnston is a Gaza correspondent of BBC but it is sad that the requests from various sectors over his release are being worthless. His parents, all the BBC staffers and journalists and many people from all over the world have been urging for his release since his abduction.
The Army of Islam had claimed that Mr. Johnston was in their captivity but no more information has been revealed. Demanding the release of Mr. Johnston over 160,000 signatures from the people have been carried out by BBC in its site. Being a reporter such incident like Johnston abduction definitely hurts me. During the period of 10 years insurgency in Nepal too, we Nepali journalists also had to face the problem of abduction, threatening and others from both the government and the Maoists side however the situation is very good now. In the context of Johnston, I would like to request those people who abducted him to release Mr. Johnston as soon as possible.