Mohammed Salman, the general secretary of PTI Sindh’s social media wing, was reported missing after attending the party’s protest against enforced disappearances outside the Karachi Press Club, reported Dawn.

The family has said they are going to file a petition before the Sindh High Court against the alleged abduction.

On Friday, PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s focal person on social media, Azhar Mashwani,  returned safely home eight days after he reportedly went missing from Lahore.

Mashwani returned home a day after the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) ​​to recover Mashwani and produce him before court on April 3.

Earlier, a court in Faisalabad sentenced a PTI social media activist, Sikander Zaman, to three-year imprisonment and imposed a heavy fine on him for criticising Pakistan Army.

Meanwhile, a court in Peshawar sentenced a PTI activist to 26 months in jail for criticising the army chief and Pakistan Army, burning the national flag, and making its video viral on social media.

The convict, who was residing in a Gulf country at the time, had recorded a video and uploaded it on social media wherein he was shown putting on fire Pakistan’s national flag and also uttering “derogatory remarks” against the Pakistan Army and the chief of army staff after the removal of former prime minister Imran Khan through a vote of no-confidence in April 2022.

The convict was arrested at the airport on his return in June 2022.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him.

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The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him.

The convict, who was residing in a Gulf country at the time, had recorded a video and uploaded it on social media wherein he was shown putting on fire Pakistan’s national flag and also uttering “derogatory remarks” against the Pakistan Army and the chief of army staff after the removal of former prime minister Imran Khan through a vote of no-confidence in April 2022.

The convict was arrested at the airport on his return in June 2022.

Earlier, a court in Faisalabad sentenced a social media activist, Sikander Zaman, to three-year imprisonment and imposed a heavy fine on him for criticising Pakistan Army.

The social media activist has 184 followers on Twitter and his handle is rife with posts related to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

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The social media activist has 184 followers on Twitter and his handle is rife with posts related to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Sikander Zaman @imsikanderzaman is sentenced to three years imprisonment and huge fine for having criticized #Pakarmy/ institutions on Twitter leading to create panic and defamation of state institutions. He has 184 followers. pic.twitter.com/s9PVMnJJpA

— Pak Lawyers Forum (@PLF_Officials) February 14, 2023

Cabinet members are mulling over a law seeking 5-year imprisonment instead of three-year for “ridiculing and scandalising the state institutions”.
According to the bill, titled Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2023, whoever makes, publishes, circulates any statement or disseminates information, through any medium, with an intention to ridicule or scandalise the judiciary, the armed forces or any of their member will be guilty of an offence punishable with imprisonment of up to five years or with a fine which may extend to Rs1 million or with both.
The legislation also proposes that the offender be arrested without a warrant and calls for the offence to be non-bailable and non-compoundable which could only be challenged in a sessions court.
The proposed amendments have come under harsh criticism from human rights activists, as well as lawmakers.

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