An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday approved a two-day physical remand of senior journalist Matiullah Jan in relation to a case registered against him at Islamabad’s Margalla Police Station.
Jan, whose arrest was confirmed by the Islamabad Police earlier in the day, was presented before ATC judge Tahir Abbas Sipra, wherein Prosecutor Raja Naveed requested a 30-day physical remand.
However, the court rejected the request and granted police a two-day physical remand of the journalist.
Matiullah, after being arrested, was then shifted to Margalla Police Station, cops said. However, human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Haazir said that he was at the lock-up when she went to visit him.Play Video
Earlier, in a post on X, his family said that he had been “abducted” from the parking of PIMS at around 11pm by “unmarked abductors in an unmarked vehicle”.
“I demand that my father be let go immediately and his family immediately be informed of his whereabouts,” the post added.
Taking to social media, Mazari has said that the journalist, who is also her client, was “missing”.
“After pleading with police at Margalla Police Station to allow us access to our client Matiullah Jan, we were finally allowed in. I checked hawalaat/lock up myself and the ppl [people] locked up inside confirmed to me that right before we came, the police took Matiullah Jan. He is missing,” Mazari wrote on her official X handle, formerly Twitter.
