<p>Three weeks after he went missing, a Pakistani professor and prominent human rights activist has returned home, police said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Salman Haider, a professor at the Fatima Jinnah University and human rights activist, returned home late last night, Geo News reported quoting police officers.<br /><br />He had gone missing on January 6 when he was in the Bani Gala area with his friends and called his wife to tell her that he would return home by 8 PM.<br /><br />When Salman - who was critical of the fundamentalists in the sensitive Muslim-majority nation - did not return by 10 PM, his wife called him but his phone went unanswered, his brother Zeeshan Haider said.<br /><br />His wife later received a text message from Salman's phone that asked her to pick his car from Coral Chowk, Zeeshan said.<br /><br />Police had found the professor's car from Coral Chowk but no information about him.<br />A missing person's report for Salman was filed in Lohi Bher police station and an investigation was launched.<br /><br />He was among four activists, others identified as Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed and Ahmed Raza Naseer, who had gone missing this month. They had been accused of promoting blasphemy, a criminal offense in Pakistan.<br /><br />A United Nations human rights expert on January 12 called on the Pakistani authorities to make it a top priority to locate and protect four disappeared human rights and social media campaigners, saying no government should tolerate attacks on its citizens.</p>
<p>Three weeks after he went missing, a Pakistani professor and prominent human rights activist has returned home, police said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Salman Haider, a professor at the Fatima Jinnah University and human rights activist, returned home late last night, Geo News reported quoting police officers.<br /><br />He had gone missing on January 6 when he was in the Bani Gala area with his friends and called his wife to tell her that he would return home by 8 PM.<br /><br />When Salman - who was critical of the fundamentalists in the sensitive Muslim-majority nation - did not return by 10 PM, his wife called him but his phone went unanswered, his brother Zeeshan Haider said.<br /><br />His wife later received a text message from Salman's phone that asked her to pick his car from Coral Chowk, Zeeshan said.<br /><br />Police had found the professor's car from Coral Chowk but no information about him.<br />A missing person's report for Salman was filed in Lohi Bher police station and an investigation was launched.<br /><br />He was among four activists, others identified as Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed and Ahmed Raza Naseer, who had gone missing this month. They had been accused of promoting blasphemy, a criminal offense in Pakistan.<br /><br />A United Nations human rights expert on January 12 called on the Pakistani authorities to make it a top priority to locate and protect four disappeared human rights and social media campaigners, saying no government should tolerate attacks on its citizens.</p>