Court grants FIA two-day remand of Raoof Hasan

ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Tuesday granted a two-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Information Secretary Raoof Hasan to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a case related to his alleged involvement in disseminating anti-state propaganda.

Presenting the PTI official before the court, the FIA prosecutor requested the court to grant physical remand of the suspect for recovering social media devices — allegedly used for anti-state propaganda.

A day earlier, Islamabad Police took Hasan into custody from the party’s Central Secretariat for heading a digital media cell and its alleged involvement in running anti-Pakistan propaganda.

“The PTI digital media centre had become a centre of international disinformation, from where anti-Pakistan propaganda is run throughout the world,” said police.

Although initially it was reported that party Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan was also arrested, the ICT later clarified that they had only arrested Hasan during the raid at PTI’s Central Secretariat.

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