<p>Naik’s body was found in his home in the heart of the Pakistani capital.<br /><br />The revelation that he has been murdered marked a turnaround from a police spokesman’s earlier statement that there were no marks of injury on the former diplomat’s body. Naik, 70, was unmarried and had been living alone in his house in a neighbourhood in central Islamabad for a long time.<br /><br />A post-mortem examination of Naik’s body revealed he was tortured before being killed, said police officials and doctors who performed the autopsy.<br /><br />Naik was hit with a sharp and heavy object and there were signs of torture on his neck. Four ribs and the jaw were fractured and the lungs were damaged, the autopsy report said.<br />Naik, who also served as High Commissioner to India and was involved in back-channel diplomacy during the Kargil conflict of 1999, apparently died three to four days ago, police said. Police officials said they were trying to ascertain the motive behind the murder.<br /><br />The former diplomat was involved in back-channel parleys with R K Mishra, an aide of the then Indian premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee, during the Kargil war.<br /><br />President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, former premier and opposition PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif condoled Naik’s death.<br /></p>
<p>Naik’s body was found in his home in the heart of the Pakistani capital.<br /><br />The revelation that he has been murdered marked a turnaround from a police spokesman’s earlier statement that there were no marks of injury on the former diplomat’s body. Naik, 70, was unmarried and had been living alone in his house in a neighbourhood in central Islamabad for a long time.<br /><br />A post-mortem examination of Naik’s body revealed he was tortured before being killed, said police officials and doctors who performed the autopsy.<br /><br />Naik was hit with a sharp and heavy object and there were signs of torture on his neck. Four ribs and the jaw were fractured and the lungs were damaged, the autopsy report said.<br />Naik, who also served as High Commissioner to India and was involved in back-channel diplomacy during the Kargil conflict of 1999, apparently died three to four days ago, police said. Police officials said they were trying to ascertain the motive behind the murder.<br /><br />The former diplomat was involved in back-channel parleys with R K Mishra, an aide of the then Indian premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee, during the Kargil war.<br /><br />President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, former premier and opposition PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif condoled Naik’s death.<br /></p>