The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) was knowledgeable on Wednesday that lacking poet Ahmed Farhad Shah was within the custody of Dhirkot police in Azad Kashmir.
The event got here as Justice Kayani resumed listening to a petition in search of the lacking Kashmiri poet’s restoration.
Over the past listening to, IHC senior puisne decide Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani had ordered reside streaming of all lacking individuals instances. Nonetheless, at this time’s case was not broadcast reside.
Justice Kayani had additionally summoned the sector commanders of the Inter Companies Intelligence (ISI) and Navy Intelligence (MI), the director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Regulation Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar and the defence, legislation and inside secretaries at this time.
Throughout at this time’s listening to, Lawyer Normal of Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan, Extra Lawyer Normal (AAG) Munawar Iqbal Duggal, and the legislation minister appeared earlier than the courtroom.
Senior journalist Hamid Mir and human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir had been additionally in attendance.
AGP Awan knowledgeable the courtroom that Shah was in police custody and offered the police report back to the courtroom.
Justice Kayani stated that the poet was “arrested after the Kohala bridge after which its jurisdiction was fastened”.
The primary data report (FIR) in opposition to Shah was filed at this time on the Dhirkot police station at round 8am, with the time of the incident simply an hour earlier.
It was registered underneath part 186 of the Pakistan Penal Code for obstructing a public servant within the discharge of public capabilities.
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