Amid the criticism of the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) for arresting ASI-Islamabad Zahoor Ali, JusticeForAsiZahoor is among the few top trends on Twitter in Pakistan.
The ASI of Islamabad police Zahoor Ali is accused of allegedly sharing some sensitive information about Pakistan to the foreign agent.
The accused has been booked under the provisions of the Official Secret Act 1923 and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. He was later produced in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad Faizan Haider Gilani.
Zahoor was and on suspicion was being monitored for some time. He was nabbed after the agency got information that he would meet a foreign diplomat at a metro bus station on Jinnah Avenue.
In response, FIA officials of the counter-terrorism wing constituted a team who reached the spot. ASI was reportedly picked up by the foreign agent in a vehicle with tinted glasses.
He was later taken into custody as the car returned after some time and dropped him. Two cell phones, a wallet, Rs50,000 cash, and USBs were recovered from him while he failed to satisfy the officials about the secret meeting with the officials.
Later, he admitted taking money from the foreign diplomat against secret information and documents, per reports.
On the other hand, many senior journalists while taking the issue to Twitter claimed that ASI Zahoor Ali was threatened booked by FIA in a fake case.
Human Rights Activist Imaan Zainab Mazari tweeted that “ASI Zahoor is in FIA custody on the basis of a false & frivolous FIR registered under Official Secrets Act.”
Reminder: ASI Zahoor is in FIA custody on the basis of a false & frivolous FIR registered under Official Secrets Act. Why? Because of a raid on a massage parlour/brothel in E11 where an army major was caught with his pants down. ASI is being taught a lesson for doing his job.
— Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir (@ImaanZHazir) December 16, 2021
Did she ask why? Saying that because of a raid on a massage parlour/brothel in E11 where an army major was caught with his pants down. ASI is being taught a lesson for doing his job.
Journalist Asad Toor tweeted in his reply to DC-Islamabad, “So you stand by the contents of FIR that ASI Zahoor was arrested by FIA from Ufone tower after a foreign diplomat dropped him?
So you stand by the contents of FIR that ASI Zahoor was arrested by FIA from Ufone tower after a foreign diplomat dropped him? And this is also not true that he was abducted on the evening of 29th November and returned on 1st December but @ICT_Police refused to register the FIR? https://t.co/ItDoh6Odl3
— Asad Ali Toor (@AsadAToor) December 17, 2021
He tweeted that this is also not true that he was abducted on the evening of 29th November and returned on 1st December but refused to register the FIR?
