There is growing concern across the Indian television industry and beyond for the welfare of Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan. The former COO of Balaji Telefilms has been missing since July, and the company’s creative head, Indian soap opera supremo Ekta Kapoor, has urged the Indian government to send a search party to find him.
Kapoor shared a picture of Khan on Instagram, where she wrote, “Our ex coo of @balajitelefilmslimited has disappeared from Nairobi almost three months ago.
I request @meaindia @kenyaredcross to kindly look into this (sic).” Khan and a friend, Zaid Sami Kidwai, went missing in Kenya almost 90 days ago.
There has been speculation that the pair, along with a taxi driver named Nicodemus Mwania, were murdered by the Kenyan SSU – the Special Service Unit, a group allegedly responsible for many extrajudicial murders in the country.
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