A prominent Pakistani journalist, a vocal critic of Pakistan's powerful military, on Wednesday said he was beaten and threatened with death by nearly a dozen unidentified armed men, who tried to abduct him.

Taha Siddiqui, the Pakistani bureau chief of Indian television channel WION, said he was attacked by 10-12 men while he was going to the airport in Rawalpindi but managed to escape before being kidnapped, suffering minor injuries during the struggle, Dawn News reported. Siddiqui recounted the details of the kidnapping attempt in a series of tweets.