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Security unit force locomotion arsenic fume billows from teardrop state shells fired to forestall an anti-government protestation by supporters of the erstwhile Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's enactment Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) demanding the merchandise of Khan, successful Islamabad, Pakistan, November 26, 2024. (Reuters)
A Pakistani writer investigating claims of casualties successful a protestation march demanding the merchandise of jailed ex-prime curate Imran Khan was picked up disconnected the thoroughfare connected Wednesday nighttime and charged with terrorism, according to a workfellow and his lawyer.
Television big Matiullah Jan is known arsenic a professional of the military’s dense power successful Pakistani politics.
Hours earlier being picked up, helium had done a TV amusement wherever helium work from what helium said were infirmary records contradicting the government’s denial that unrecorded ammunition had been utilized erstwhile information forces dispersed the protest, oregon that immoderate protesters had been killed.
Jan’s workfellow Saqib Bashir said connected Thursday that they had some been picked up by men wearing achromatic uniforms from the car parkland of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) successful Islamabad.
They were blindfolded and bundled into a car, helium said, adding: “We were collecting information connected the casualties.” Bashir was dropped disconnected successful a thoroughfare 3 hours later.
Jan’s lad Abd-u-Razaq confirmed the relationship successful a video statement, demanding authorities merchandise his father. His lawyer Imaan Mazari, however, said helium had been charged with terrorism, cause peddling and attacking police.
“It is nary little than a joke,” she said. “There is not an iota of information successful these charges.”
Bashir said Jan’s household had been fixed entree to him astatine a constabulary lock-up connected Thursday morning.
Neither Islamabad constabulary nor the Information Ministry responded to a petition for a comment.
Jan had besides formed uncertainty connected authoritative assertions that immoderate information unit had died aft being tally implicit by a conveyance successful the protesters’ convoy.
Thousands of supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) enactment had implicit the play stormed Islamabad. The authorities said they had killed 4 information officers.
The PTI said hundreds of protesters had been shot, and betwixt 8 and 40 killed.
The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed “grave alarm” implicit Jan’s “abduction” and demanded his contiguous release.
Jan had besides been abducted for astir 12 hours during Khan’s regularisation successful 2020.
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