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CM Punjab orders release of Shireen Mazari

LAHORE: CM Punjab Hamza Shehbaz has ordered release of former Human Rights minister Shireen Mazari who was arrested here on Saturday (21st of May, 2022) by Anti-Corruption Dept in a case related to the encroachment of government land in Rajanpur District. 

Shireen Mazari’s daughter Imaan Zainab Mazari took to the Twitter to claim: “Male police officers have beaten and taken my mother away. All I have been told is that Anti Corruption Wing Lahore has taken her.”

Journalist Hamid Mir Tweeted: “Arrest of ⁦Shireen Mazari⁩ by ⁦Police. Investigation against her started when Usman Buzdar was CM but arrested from Islamabad today. Now PML-N must clear it’s position”.

PTI Chief Imran Khan stated: “Our senior party leader Shireen Mazari has reportedly been violently abducted from outside her house by this fascist regime. Shireen is strong and fearless, if the imported govt thinks it can coerce her by this fascism, they have miscalculated!

“Our movement is completely peaceful but this fascist imported govt wants to push the country towards chaos. As if sending the economy into tailspin wasn’t enough,they now want anarchy to avoid elections. Today we will protest and tmrw after CC meeting I’ll announce our Long March”. 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.