WASHINGTON – US Assistant Secretary of State Alice G. Wells, who is alsothe in-charge of South Asia affairs at the US State Department, on Fridayexpressed concern over “reports of the continued harassment” of rightsactivist Gulalai Ismail’s family and her father’s alleged detention.
“We encourage Pakistan to uphold citizens’ rights to peaceful assembly,expression, and due process,” Wells said in a post shared on Twitter.
In a post shared on Twitter today, Ismail criticised the silence of themainstream Pakistani media following her father’s alleged abduction fromthe premises of the PHC.
“I’ve run out of words to condemn the criminal silence of media; it hasbecome an ally of [the] military in imposing unannounced martial law,” shesaid.
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Pakistani women rights activist Gulalai Ismail, who is currently in the USlink,on Thursday said that her father was picked up by “men wearing militiadress” in Peshwar.
“My father has been picked up by men wearing Malitia dress from outside ofPeshawar High Court an hour ago,” Ms Ismail had tweeted.
