IHC to hear plea today for recovery of Azhar Mashwani’s two missing brothers

ISLAMABAD: Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of the Islamabad High Court will hear today a petition for the recovery of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social media activist Azhar Mashwani’s two missing brothers Prof Mazharul Hasan and Prof Zahoorul Hasan.

The father of the missing persons has stated in the application that his another son, Azhar Mashwani, who is in the UK, was contacted by an intelligence agency representative, who said both of his brothers were in the custody of the agency in Islamabad and asked him to delete a tweet against the establishment and election rigging.

The father of the missing brothers filed the petition through Shoaib Shaheen and Azhar Siddique advocates.

The petition states that intelligence agency officers in plain clothes and Counter Terrorism Department officials in uniform picked up his sons.

The petition said this action was challenged before the Lahore High Court, on which the court issued several directions to the law enforcement agencies from June 6 to August 2.

The father submitted that a representative of an intelligence agency contacted his son Azhar Mashwani in the UK from Islamabad and asked him to delete the tweet against the establishment and election rigging.

He said Azhar Mashwani was told that his two brothers are with the agency in Islamabad. At this, he withdrew the petition from the Lahore High Court on the basis of this information.

The court was requested that the two brothers be recovered and directed to be produced before the court. The hearing on the application will be held today.