Pakistan’s Senior journalist and prominent anchor Hamid Mir has claimed that senior journalist Matiullah Jan has been abducted from Islamabad.
However, later reports said that Jan was found at the Margalla Police Station in Islamabad. An FIR has accused him of threatening security officials.
Jan, a prominent journalist, has been booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act. He will be presented in an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad later today.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday morning, Mir claimed that Matiullah Jan and another journalist, Saqib Bashir, were abducted by unidentified individuals on the night of November 26.
While Saqib Bashir was later released, Matiullah Jan remains missing.
According to Mir, Bashir is filing a petition with the Islamabad High Court regarding the incident.
Another journalist, Roohan Ahmad, said that Jan was abducted outside PIMS hospital.
It is noteworthy that Matiullah Jan previously shared a video on social media showing a Rangers official being run over by a vehicle in Islamabad. Jan claimed the Rangers official was struck by his own vehicle. However, several Rangers officials later stated that a speeding vehicle driven by protesters ran over their colleague.
Jan had also claimed that PIMS officials were being pressured not to report casualties in the operation against the PTI protest.
A post from journalist Arifa Noor at 9:12 said that Jan was revealed to be at Margalla Police Station in Islamabad and journalists were heading over to meet him.
However, Jan’s lawyer Imaan Mazari later said that the journalist was moved from the police station before she could meet him.
FIR
The FIR filed against Matiullah Jan in the Margalla Police station said that the arrest was made in E9 in contrast to the original reports of his abduction near PIMS.
The FIR further alleges that Jan was driving a white car at a high speed when asked to stop by security. Instead, Jan tried to run the security staff over.
He then allegedly snatched a guard’s gun and pointed it at him. The FIR also alleges that Matiullah was intoxicated at the time.
The FIR states that upon scanning the vehicle, a shopping bag containing 246 grams of ice was found in the car.
