Islamabad, June 19 (IANS) Pakistan lawmaker Mohsin Dawar has sought a "comprehensive inquiry" into the "abduction" of fellow MNA Ali Wazir, who he said was arrested by the authorities in North Waziristan on Monday and taken to an "undisclosed location", media reports said. Dawar raised these concerns during a National Assembly session chaired by Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Dawn reported. "Speaker sahib, early morning today, we received information that our MNA Ali Wazir was arrested near a check-post in North Waziristan," he said, claiming that "there is no clue regarding his whereabouts", the report said. Dawar also requested the Speaker to initiate a probe into Wazir's arrest and determine his whereabouts. Separately, Dawar said in a tweet that Wazir's arrest shows that there is no rule of law in the country, Dawn reported.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 19, 2023 13:26 UTC