
Ex-Pak human rights minister Shireen Mazari ‘beaten’ and in police custody; Punjab CM orders her release
Islamabad/Lahore, May 21Pakistan's ex-human rights minister Shireen Mazari, who has been criticising the powerful Army after Imran Khan was ousted as prime minister last month, was "beaten" and taken away by the police, her daughter said on Saturday.Mazari's arrest by anti-corruption officials triggered a political storm but it was quickly doused with the intervention of Pakistan's Punjab province Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz who ordered her release from police custody.Hamza also ordered an inquiry against those police officials involved in 59-year-old Mazari's arrest. The chief minister said he had not ordered the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader's arrest, indirectly suggesting "other power establishment figures" behind her detention.Mazari, a former cabinet colleague of ousted premier Imr...