JUI-F says deputy chief Qari Iftikhar taken away in Islamabad
Spokesperson Aslam Ghauri says he and colleagues were stopped near E-11 and forced into a vehicle, and that he was freed after about an hour while Iftikhar was not
JUI-F deputy chief Qari Iftikhar was taken away by men in plain clothes in Islamabad on Monday, the party said, and it had no information by evening about where he was being held. No police, interior ministry or district administration statement on the detention had been issued.
JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri said he and several colleagues were stopped near the E-11 sector of the capital and forced into a vehicle by four or five men. The men took his mobile phone and identity documents, he said.
"We were not told which institution these individuals belonged to or why we were being taken into custody," Ghauri said, according to The Express Tribune.
Ghauri said he and one colleague were driven around the city for about an hour and then released. Iftikhar was not freed with them, and the men gave no account of where they were taking him, he said.
Iftikhar is deputy chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl and runs the party's Islamabad office.
The Express Tribune also carried a JUI-F statement in Urdu that named Khalid Sharif alongside Ghauri and Iftikhar among those picked up.
The detention came as relations between the federal government and the JUI-F have worsened since governor's rule was imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman rejected the move, said any emergency should instead be imposed on a federal government he called illegitimate, and accused the government of walking back from negotiations with the PTI and other opposition parties.
Federal ministers answered him in the National Assembly. The JUI-F chief accused the government of misusing the Constitution, and ministers questioned his own record of forming and bringing down governments. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi suggested that Fazl's opposition to governor's rule was linked to his not being offered a role in the new provincial set-up.
A delegation of the PTI and the Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan later endorsed Fazl's speech in the assembly and condemned what it called a campaign to malign him after his criticism of the government's decisions.
How the reports differ
The Express Tribune alone carried the JUI-F's Urdu statement, which named Khalid Sharif as among those picked up with Aslam Ghauri and Qari Iftikhar; Minute Mirror named only the two. Both reported that no authority had responded to the detention by the time they filed.
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