Senior Journalist Matiullah Jan was arrested by the Islamabad on Thursday. According to media reports, the Margalla Hills police registered the FIR against the journalist. According to the police, Mattiullah Jan was asked by a constable to stop at a picket but he did not stop there. They said he instead hit his car with the constable. Subsequently, the constable who was identified as Mudassir got injured. The reports suggested that Jan went missing on Wednesday and his family was worried about his whereabouts. Following the claim of Jan’s son that his father was “abducted” from Islamabad last night by “unknown individuals”, it emerged that the journalist was booked in a first information report (FIR) in the early hours of Thursday.

Earlier on Thursday, rights bodies and the journalism fraternity voiced their concerns on Jan’s arrest, following his son’s allegation that the anchor was abducted from Islamabad last night. A post on Jan’s X account at 5:09am, seemingly made by his son, read: “Matiullah Jan has been abducted from the parking of Pims tonight at around 11pm by unmarked abductors in an unmarked vehicle.” Referring to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), the post had also said that journalist Saqib Bashir was also allegedly abducted but was “let go five minutes later”.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan