PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry stated on Friday that Azhar Mashwani, who the get together alleged was “kidnapped” in Lahore a day earlier, had been shifted to Islamabad.
The PTI social media activist was picked up on Thursday, apparently on prices of criticising the Punjab police and the caretaker authorities for allegedly utilizing high-handed ways in opposition to get together staff.
The arrest had prompted PTI chief Imran Khan to say, “sufficient is sufficient” as he accused authorities of abducting the get together activist. Imran additionally stated he was sending photos of all officers concerned within the crackdown on his staff to worldwide human rights organisations in order that they may “determine these working for the state and indulging in abductions, unlawful break-ins into properties, custodial torture and violence in opposition to political leaders and unarmed staff of PTI”.
Talking to Daybreak.com immediately, Chaudhry stated the get together was tracing Mashwani’s location.
“We now have been monitoring Mashwani’s location,” the ex-information minister stated. “He was on the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) workplace in Bedian. Then he was shifted to Islamabad”.
Fawad stated the get together had tried to get a primary data report (FIR) registered in opposition to Mashwani’s alleged abduction however officers had refused to take action. “We tried registering it on the Inexperienced City police station however they didn’t lodge a report.”
He added that the police had been being “pressurised” to not register a FIR in opposition to the PTI activist’s “unlawful abduction”.
Fawad additionally stated {that a} habeas corpus petition had been filed within the Lahore Excessive Court docket (LHC) looking for Mashwani’s restoration. He stated that the registrar’s workplace had raised an objection however the case had been listed for listening to on the LHC Rawalpindi bench on Monday (March 27).
