'I was tortured, will tell the court everything': Shireen Mazari

Islamabad: PTI leader and former federal minister Shireen Mazari has alleged that she was tortured and would tell the court each and every thing about her arrest and torture on her. 

Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah had directed authorities to produce Mazari before the court at 11:30pm today.

Assisted by Islamabad police Punjab’s anti-corruption department had arrested PTI leader Mazari today afternoon, but hours after the authority's move, Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz ordered her immediate release.

Mazari alleged that she was dragged out of the car and her cell phone was not returned so far. "[It was either] Shehbaz Sharif and Rana Sana Ullah or the intelligence agencies who are behind my arrest," the former minsiter further alleged while walking and responding questions of reporters.

When asked how she was treated, she said: "I will tell that in the court. They dragged me out of the car, did not show any warrant."

When asked again that on whose order she was arrested, Mazari responded: "This we do not know yet but those who were taking me to Lahore, they said Rana Sanaullah and Shehbaz Sharif. The torture that they have done on me, I will tell it all."

Prior to the start of the hearing, Mazari was brought to the high court by Islamabad police, whose officers flanked her as she walked into the court premises. Outside the court, she was reunited with her daughter Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir.