Five people have also been suspended
by the Pakistan Bureau of Investigation (PBI) for allegedly torturing well-known journalist Aqrarul Hassan in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday night, but no case has been registered so far.
Al-Hassan told the media that the government had assured him that a case of violence against him would be filed against the government and if that did not happen then he would file an FIR himself.
According to Aqarul Hassan, this assurance has been given by the spokesperson of the government Shahbaz Gill and it has been said that the government itself will be the plaintiff in this case.
Since the news broke on social media on Monday night, photos and videos of Aqarul Hassan's injured condition have been shared and the incident has been condemned.
The journalist's program affiliated with ARY News Channel is popular because of his sting operation and according to him he was reporting on IB personnel when this incident happened to him.
Al-Hassan told the Media that he had been investigating the alleged corruption of IB personnel for the past several days and had been told by a Bengali family that a sub-inspector had allegedly asked him to verify his passport. He is asking for a bribe of Rs 60,000.
According to him, NADRA Authority investigates any suspicious person from IB.
According to Iqrar-ul-Hassan, "during the filming of the program, his team paid bribes of Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 24,000 at different times, while Rs.
He said he recorded with hidden cameras and he was there with his team at 4 pm on Monday and allegedly recorded a bribe from an official and inside the gate. Went to where they were pushed to get out.
He claimed that all these scenes would be present in the CCTV cameras there.
According to him, seven people including cameraman and assistant producer were present with him during the recording.
Al-Hassan alleges that "at the same time his deputy director came with a pistol on his side" and on his orders he and his team were taken to a torture cell where he was tortured and his video Made.
Al-Hassan says that four hours later, the owner of ARY contacted him and after that he "asked us for new clothes, juice and said that he gets angry". After that we came out. The blood that came out of my head was frozen in my hair.
The intelligence bureau said in a statement on Monday night that it had suspended night director Syed Mohi-ud-Din Rizwan, stenographer Mehboob Ali, stenographer Inam Ali, sub-inspector Rajab Ali and head constable Khawar. According to the IB statement, this step has been taken with the approval of JDG.
The Intelligence Bureau is a subsidiary of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The media has repeatedly approached Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed for comment, but has not received a response. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry also did not respond to a request for comment.
Speaking on an ARY program, Shahbaz Gul said that he was in constant touch with Iqrar-ul-Hassan and Prime Minister Imran Khan was also informed about the incident.
"These are black sheep. Not only have they been suspended, but they will be dealt with severely," he said.
Al-Hassan's programs have been controversial in the past, and he has been subjected to police brutality in addition to civilians, but he says this is the first time such an incident has happened to him inside the office of a federal agency. has come.
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