{"id":10043,"date":"2019-10-25T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/10\/us-state-dept-concerned-over-alleged-detention-of-gulalai-ismails-father\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:52:10","slug":"us-state-dept-concerned-over-alleged-detention-of-gulalai-ismails-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/10\/25\/us-state-dept-concerned-over-alleged-detention-of-gulalai-ismails-father\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Dept \u2018concerned\u2019 over alleged detention of Gulalai Ismail\u2019s father"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2014 State Dept \u201crecommended Pakistan to support civil rights for peaceful assembly, expression\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ismail fled to the United States in September after the Interior Ministry seized passports in March of this year.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Washington DC .:<\/strong> On Friday, the US State Department expressed concern about "reporting of continued harassment" on charges of detention of the rights activist Gulalai Ismail's family and her father.<\/p>\n

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We are concerned about the ongoing harassment of the Gurarai Ismail family and the reporting of her father's detention. We encourage Pakistan to maintain its citizens' rights to peaceful assembly, expression and due process. AGW<\/p>\n

\u2014 State_SCA (@State_SCA) October 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Deputy Secretary of State Alice G. Wells, who is in charge of South Asian affairs at the State Department, said on Twitter: "Pakistan has encouraged people to uphold their rights to peaceful assembly, expression and due process."<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Ismail tweeted that her father was picked up outside the Peshawar High Court (PHC) by "men in Malitai dresses."<\/p>\n

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An hour ago, outside the Peshawar High Court, men in Malaysian dresses brought their father.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gulalai_Ismail (@Gulalai_Ismail) October 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ismail criticized the Pakistani media's "silence" on charges of his father's abduction in the PHC premises in a follow-up that shared the news today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have nothing to blame for the media's criminal silence. It became an ally [the] In enforcing undeclared martial law<\/p>\n

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About 19 hours ago, my father was kidnapped at the Peshawar High Court grounds, but there is a pin drop silence in Pakistan's main media. There is not enough word to blame the criminal silence of the media. It became an ally of the military in imposing an unannounced martial law.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gulalai_Ismail (@Gulalai_Ismail) 25 October 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In September, Ismail, the leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) national movement, fled to the United States. New York Times<\/em> Reported at the time.<\/p>\n

"She is now with her sister in Brooklyn and has applied for political asylum in the United States," the report said.<\/p>\n

However, the situation in which Ismail escaped the country has been confiscated by the Ministry of Home Affairs since the end of March this year, \u201cIslamabad High Court (IHC) permits. -Service Information (ISI).<\/p>\n

In November last year, the IHC was informed that the ISI would recommend to the ECL the name of a rights activist asserting his anti-state activities.<\/p>\n

When requested by New York Times<\/em> The correspondent Ismail did not say how she ran away. \u201cWhat I can say is that I didn't take a plane at the airport,\u201d she replied briefly.<\/p>\n

On October 2, an additional provincial and session court in Islamabad issued an unenforceable arrest warrant for Ismail in a case involving the malignation of state agencies.<\/p>\n

The court ordered on October 21 that if the suspect did not appear, he could begin the process of proclaiming the sentenced offender. That day Ismail did not appear in court when in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n