Hours after their detention in the nation’s capital, former legislator Ali Wazir and human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari were remanded in police prison on Sunday.
Ali Wazir and Iman Mazari have been taken into custody by the Islamabad Capital Police. The Islamabad Police were looking for both suspects. The police department in the nation’s capital released a statement on X (previously Twitter) early on Sunday morning, promising that all actions would be conducted in accordance with the law.
An FIR claiming that dozens of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) rallygoers on Friday attempted to “interfere in state affairs” was widely circulated online, and it claims that Wazir and Mazari were among those arrested and charged under various provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
According to the FIR, some rallygoers came prepared with guns while others carried sticks. They planned a defiant march against the capital city. The protesters then proceeded to conduct a rally smack dab in the center of GT Road, a major thoroughfare.
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The FIR alleged that protesters damaged a government vehicle, fought with officials, and stole an anti-riot gear from an officer as they were being dispersed.
Wazir and Imaan appeared before District and Sessions Judge Ihtasham Alam on a Sunday morning, surrounded by police officers. The prosecutor asked the Court to keep the defendants in police custody, and the judge denied the motion.
Imaan’s mother, the former human rights minister Shireen Mazari, stepped on to the podium. The former head of the PTI spoke out against the “illegal manner” in which authorities had broken down her front gate and taken her daughter into custody without presenting an arrest order early on Sunday morning.
Aside from that, “they also pushed and shoved me and snatched my mobile phone,” she stated.
The judge instructed her to go to the proper agency to file the complaint. But he told the investigator to give the former minister back her cellphone “if it was not needed.”
Grave accusations
The prosecution also presented the judge with a second First Information Report (FIR) that had been filed against Wazir and Mazari by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Islamabad, which included sedition and terrorism charges.
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In light of the initial report filed at the Tarnol Police Station, the judge ordered Wazir to spend two days in police custody and Mazari to spend one. In light of the second FIR, however, he ordered their re-arrest and re-presentation in court this coming Monday.
At the Friday gathering, Mazari and PTM leaders allegedly tried to instigate rebellion among heads, officers, and employees of state institutions, according to the second FIR filed under sections 124A, 153A, 153, 506, 149, and 148 of the PPC and sections 7, 11W, and 21i of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997.
Protest organizers were accused of working to weaken the military and spread terrorism in addition to inciting government personnel to violate their oath of allegiance.
They made dire warnings to the judicial, legislative, and executive branches.
They referred to state institutions by insulting names in order to “sow discord among the populace, fuel terrorism, incite rebellion, spark civil war and civil disobedience, and motivate people to resort to armed struggle,” it said.
