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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Asif Shahzad

BIZARRE: Repeated arrests filthy cells inside pakistan s crackdown - What They Never Told You

FILE PHOTO: People throw stones at police during a protest against former Prime Minister Imran Khan's arrest, in Peshawar, Pakistan, May 10, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

Hammad Azhar, who has served as Pakistan's finance and energy minister, says police and plain-clothed officials have burst into his home six times in recent weeks, smashed his belongings and threatened his 82-year-old father, warning that his daughter would be abducted.

Last weekend, he said police and "unknown people" took his father to a police station and released him after they went through his phone for an hour.

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