*Bilal Farooqi, a Karachi-based journalist associated with the ExpressMedia Group, was picked up from his house in DHA by two men in plainclothes and a policeman, his wife told SAMAA Digital Friday.*
According to his wife, the same people returned to Farooqui’s home after anhour and asked for his mobile phone. She added that Bilal had left hisphone at home when they first came to take him.
The wife was informed that Farooqi has been taken to the Defence policestation. “I was afraid so they dialled a phone number and made me talk toBilal for a minute,” she said.
A source confirmed that Bilal was in police custody but didn’t disclose thedetails, saying it was a “sensitive” matter.
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South Senior Superintendent of Police Shiraz Nazir confirmed to *SAMAADigital*that Farooqi has been arrested. An FIR has been registered toounder Section 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the PakistanPenal Code and sections 11 (hate speech) and 20 (harming the reputation orprivacy of a natural person) of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act 2016.
