Shireen Mazari, senior vice president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been detained numerous times since the May 9 riots, but she will soon be released after the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench granted her release on Monday.
The PTI leader has been ordered by the court to provide the deputy commissioner with an affidavit sworn to his future abstinence from aggressive behaviour.
A plea against Mazari’s imprisonment was being heard when the bench issued its instructions.
The PTI leader was again detained by the Punjab Police on May 17 after being freed from detention the previous day pursuant to an order from the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
According to officials, Mazari was detained by female members of the Punjab Police under Section 4 of the Maintenance of Public Order Act.
Imaan Mazari, her daughter, also tweeted that her mother had been taken again after being arrested a third time.
IHC last Monday prohibited the arrest of Senator Falak Naz Chitrali and Mazari, both members of the same party. When the two politicians appeared before the judge to hear a plea for release from further arrest, the court also ordered the authorities to cease their further investigation of the two lawmakers.
Falak Naz and Shireen Mazari are not compelled to conduct any additional inquiry, the judge ruled.
