{"id":8277,"date":"2022-05-21T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2022-05-21T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:35:44","slug":"pti-leader-shireen-mazari-arrested-in-islamabad-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-leader-shireen-mazari-arrested-in-islamabad-police\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI leader Shireen Mazari arrested in Islamabad: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister and senior PTI leader Shireen Mazari has been arrested by Punjab\u2019s anti-corruption department, Islamabad Police said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to a private news channel, the PTI leader was taken into custody in a case related to the encroachment of a piece of land in District Rajanpur, filed in 1972.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Male police officers have beaten and taken my mother away. All I have been told is that Anti Corruption Wing Lahore has taken her.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir (@ImaanZHazir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImaanZHazir\/status\/1527956699801440263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>\u2018My mother has been kidnapped\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to journalists,\u00a0Mazari\u2019s daughter, Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, confirmed the development saying that &#8220;male police officers have beaten and taken her mother away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She warned the new government that she would not \u201cspare any of them if something happens to her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only told that the anti-corruption wing has arrested my mother,\u201d she said, adding that her mother was arrested without prior notice to the family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this government does such a thing then I will follow them,\u201d she said, adding her mother wasn\u2019t arrested but she would call this a \u201ckidnapping incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As against Imaan&#8217;s claim that male officers had arrested her mother, footage aired on a private news<i>\u00a0<\/i>shows several female police officials present at the site of the arrest, trying to drag Mazari out of her car after she started resisting the arrest.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Anarchy\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to a private news channel, former interior minister Sheikh Rasheed said: \u201cThey [the new government] is pushing the country towards anarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the authorities have prepared a list of people who are to be arrested as new IGs have been appointed in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShireen Mazari\u2019s arrest is the first step in this regard,\u201d he said, warning that PTI Chairman Imran Khan &#8220;could be the next one to be arrested&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Cowardly act&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Condemning the incident, former governor Sindh Imran Ismail said: &#8220;The arrest of Mazari is a sign that the imported government is bewildered&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The imported government is making the situation complicated itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former minister for parliamentary affairs Ali Mohammad Khan termed the incident a \u201ccowardly act\u201d of the coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is not just nervous, it is extremely nervous,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n<h2>The case<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<i>Geo News<\/i>\u00a0has obtained the details of the case filed at the request of Deputy Commissioner Rajanpur, according to which the Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab registered the case on the complaint of Assistant Commissioner Rajanpur.<\/p>\n<p>Mazari is accused of encroaching upon a piece of land. A complaint was lodged against her on March 11, 2022, while AC Rajanpur was directed to inquire into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The concerned official prepared the report of the case on April 8 and in the light of this, the Anti-Corruption Establishment registered a criminal case under its Rules 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/multan-meeting-imran-says-long-march-date-will-be-announced-between-may-25-and-29.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multan meeting: Imran says Long March date will be announced between May 25 and 29<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister and senior PTI leader Shireen Mazari has been arrested by Punjab\u2019s anti-corruption department, Islamabad Police said Saturday. According to a private news channel, the PTI leader was taken into custody in a case related to the encroachment of a piece of land in District Rajanpur, filed in 1972. Male police officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[5352],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-pti-chairman-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}