A court in Pakistan’s capital has ordered an investigation into the controversial arrest of a former human rights minister over a decades-old land dispute.
Chief Justice Ather Minallah of the Islamabad High Court late Saturday ordered the probe in response to a petition from the daughter of ex-minister Shireen Mazari.
Mazari, who served in the cabinet-level position under former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was arrested by police near her Islamabad home on Friday.
Minallah questioned the decision by officials in Islamabad to allow police from a Punjab provincial district to make the arrest in the capital.
Fawad Chaudhry, former information minister in Khan’s administration, alleged Mazari – the senior leader in Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party – had been politically targeted by the new administration of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif under the guise of a land dispute dating back to 1972....
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