Islamabad: A local court in Islamabad remanded human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir into police detention on Sunday for “interference in state affairs”.
The Islamabad police arrested Imaan and Wazir separately in the early hours of Sunday for interfering in state matters. The two booked separately in an Anti-Terrorism Act prosecution.
Both produced to Duty Judicial Magistrate Ehtisham Alam Khan today as the police demanded their physical remand. The judge jailed Imaan for one day and Wazir for two.
Imaan’s lawyer requested the return of her phone and other items confiscated during her arrest.
The court then requested a report from Tarnol Police’s SHO.
at a terrorism case, the judge remanded Wazir to police detention for a day and ordered Imaan to stay at the women’s police station.
It ordered the police to bring the lawyer before an anti-terrorism court tomorrow to consider her physical remand.
The Islamabad Police posted on X, formerly Twitter: “The police wants to investigate both accused. All actions will be legal.”
Shireen Mazari, Imaan’s mother and former PTI leader, told journalists at the Islamabad district court that plainclothes officers locked their guard in the guardroom before bursting into the residence.
She said they searched her room and took her phone. Around 20 people entered the residence. She witnessed six female police officers “complained.
The episode’s veteran politician wondered why their door was shattered.
