ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistani journalist and YouTuber Matiullah Jan was arrested after an altercation at a security checkpoint in the capital, police said on Thursday.
However, Jan’s son alleged that his father was “abducted” by unknown people along with his cameraman Saqib Bashir late Wednesday night from the parking lot of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where he went to report on the people injured during the clashes between the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers and police.
According to an FIR, Jan, initially not known to the police, was arrested after he tried to run his car over the police at a security checkpoint in Sector E-9 and injured a constable in the incident.