Investigating journalist Ahmed Noorani’s mother on Wednesday requested the Islamabad High Court to recover the two brothers, which, according to the request, “forcibly disappeared” under his reporting.
Noorani based in the United States, who works for a news outlet called Fact focusRecently published an investigative report on the service of advanced military officials and his relatives.
Request, which is a copy available Don Dot ComArticle 199 of the Constitution was filed under the Secretary of Interior, the Federation of Pakistan, its secretary, the Ministry of Defense, Islamabad, Inspector General of Police Ali Nasir Rizvi and the Federal Capital Nun Police Station’s Station House Officer (SHO).
The petitioner said that his two sons, Saifur Rehman Haider and Mohammad Ali had disappeared from their Islamabad home at 1:05 am at their Islamabad house “forcibly disappearing” by “unidentified officials of the country’s intelligence agencies”. It is reported that he is a brother of Noorani, adding that he has “recently reported a large number of” a military officer. “
The petition states that “it is quite clear that Noorani’s brothers have been subjected to implementation as a clear retaliation to silence journalism.”
The mother said that she had filed a petition for the “illegal and unconstitutional actions” by public workers in the light of illegal and unconstitutional actions by public workers as a result of a severe violation of the basic rights of bail by her two sons and her family members.
The petition argued that the facts and circumstances around the brothers’ kidnapping “, as well as the way were abducted, indicated that it was the disappearance of the state, which was committed. [intelligence] Agencies, “He added that both were engineers and they had nothing to do with reporting and investigative journalism.
He said he had submitted an application for the registration of the first Information Report (FIR) but no one had been filed so far.
The petition argued that the siblings were being punished for “their brother’s fearless investigative reporting, in which especially part of the state’s policy of kidnapping and suppressing journalism.
He requested the court to order the respondents to immediately trace and prepare the two brothers before.
He also urged the court to direct the respondents directly or indirectly, identify and investigate those responsible for abducting and illegally detaining the two men.
The court further asked that they take legal action against those responsible for the crimes that they have been convicted of committing under the law and the respondents have been ordered to disclose information about any FIR or cases against the two brothers.
According to the constitutional security arrangements, the two brothers had access to their lawyer and family.
He also asked the court to order the respondents to be disclosed in place of allegations and detention against the two men where they were being kept.
Finally, the court was requested to order the respondents to give the two men the right to meet their families.
According to an FIR request associated with the Nun SHO, about two dozen unidentified persons attacked the house around 1:05 am and tried to break the main gate of the house.
He continued that the family locked himself in a room to protect them.
However, people, after jumping on the walls, breaks the door to the upper part.
It added that the mother was in contact with Noorani through a cell phone and as soon as the people saw it on the phone, they took her away from it and disconnected her.
He added that people also seized his CNIC. Before leaving, he also took a mobile phone from both his sons and his daughter.
It added that his daughter had recorded a part of the incident on his cellphone, however, these men forced him to delete the footage and seized one of his two phones.
‘Infinite repression on disagreement’
Amnesty International, the World Human Rights Organization, criticized the raids and the brothers of Noorani as “the disappearance of the implementation of the implementation” in Pakistan as a “symbol of overwhelming oppression of disagreement” in Pakistan.
“Talking to family members for critical work of a journalist abroad is an attack on the right to freedom of expression.
“Amnesty International has urged Pakistani authorities to immediately detect Noorani’s two brothers and ensure their safe return.
Senior journalist Mattallah Jan of the incident also condemned “terrible and highly condemnable”.
He said that the Islamabad police must “fast” and the brothers should be traced. He said, “If they have committed a crime, then they should be formally charged. Post X on
This is not the first time that Noorani has confused himself. In November 2022, the government took notice of the tax records of former Army Chief Retired General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s family’s tax records.
“This is a clear violation of the complete confidentiality of tax information,” a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance said. Fact focusWho allegedly cited tax declarations and statements of wealth, claiming that General Bajwa’s family had collected billions of rupees.
Fact focus He describes himself as “Pakistan -based Digital Media News Organization that is working on data -based investigative news”.
Earlier, the website published deep stories about “misuse of funds” of several politicians and other powerful sectors in Pakistan, including PTI founder Imran Khan and former dictator General Pervez Musharraf.
In 2021, the website claimed that former Chief Justice Saqib Nisar had obtained audio by ordering former Premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz to be guilty.
In 2020, the publication issued a report on the alleged offshore properties and business of former China Pakistan Economic Transit Authority Chairman LT Jin (Retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa and his family.