Pakistan
PTI leader Shireen Mazari arrested
ISLAMABAD:– Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shireen Mazari has been arrested.
Former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, in a tweet, said that he has received reports that Shireen Mazari has been arrested by Anti-corruption Punjab.
Fawad further said that former Human Rights Minister was arrested from outside her residence.
Sources privy to the development said that a case was registered against Shireen Mazari in DG Khan over 129 acre land dispute and despite repeated requests she did not appear.
Talking to media along side Former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry and PTI senior leader Shibli Faraz, Imaan Zainab Mazari while expressing much stress and worry for her mother said that my mother has been illegally and unconstitutionally kidnapped. She exclaimed that she won’t let go, if anything happened to her.
She further added that if the government will take such moves, I will be following them. My mother has been forcibly taken away.
Prior to to this, in a tweet she explained that the extent of her information is that the Male police officials have beaten her mother and taken her away. All she know is that the action has been taken by the Anti-Corruption Wing Lahore.
During a media talk, the Former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry reacting strongly to the arrest of PTI senior leader Shireen Mazari said that if there is a declaration of war by the government then there is also a declaration of war by us.
He said that the PTI leader was tortured. Her clothes were torn and she was brutally taken away in a car. The Former Federal Minister exclaimed that it’s not an arrest but kidnapping.
Fawad Chaudhry expressing further concern stated that they no clue where Shireen Mazari has been taken away. He taking a strong stance on the matter said now if there is to be a fight, there must be a fight.
Along with being a leader of a big party, Shireen Mazari is also a teacher, he added.
Fawad Chaudhry said the PTI leader Shirin Mazari is respected in the world for her involvement in the education sector.
