LAHORE: The recently arrested Hizbut Tahrir activists from Islamabad include a nuclear scientist, a private TV channel reported on Monday.
According to the channel, the arrested men include the scientist, a USAID official and an environmental scientist. The activists who are being interrogated by the Islamabad police include: Rizwan Aleem, a nuclear scientist and currently a PhD student at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology; Abid Mehmood, an officer of a United States Agency for International Development; and Aman Hamza, an environmental scientist. Sources say the Hizbut Tahrir activists were likely to be handed over to intelligence agencies for further interrogation. Nearly, all the 32 arrested activists belonged to educated families, the channel reported.
Comment:
So what is the crime for which they have been arrested? Since when has working for Islam peacefully been considered a crime in a Muslim country.
Re: Nuclear scientist among held Hizbut Tahrir activists
Being a Islamist in not a crime in Pakistan but Hizb Tahrir is a banned organization in Pakistan (for good reasons). By holding a public rally, organizing meetings etc. these guys have broken the law in a very public way and challenged the state. Hence the arrest. Why don't they and there supporters file a petition with the, now free, supreme court of Pakistan?