A heated altercation broke out between human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and the Islamabad Traffic Police due to road blockages in the city on Friday morning.
According to the 24NewsHD TV channel, the incident occurred at Zero Point on Islamabad Express Highway, where Imaan Mazari and her accompanying lawyer removed barriers while the police continued to replace them.
As per the channel report, the confrontation escalated when the lawyer accompanying Imaan Mazari allegedly slapped a traffic officer after heated words.
Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir is a well-known human rights lawyer in Pakistan and the daughter of Shireen Mazari, a former federal minister backed by PTI.
She is of Baloch ethnicity and is recognised for her legal work related to the abductions and racial profiling of Baloch students in Islamabad.
Imaan graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where she began her legal journey while pursuing her studies.
In December 2023, she married Abdul Hadi, a fellow human rights lawyer.
She faced arrest on August 20, 2023, after a rally organised by the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Islamabad. Videos from the rally showed her criticising the military for alleged abductions.
While she was released on bail on August 28, she was re-arrested immediately outside Adiala Jail in a new case involving terrorism charges.
However, on September 2, an Islamabad anti-terrorism court granted her post-arrest bail in that case.
Reporter: Tayyab Saif