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Pakistan under fire for mistreating, rearresting former Foreign Minister

A screenshot of a video on the PTI party's official X site shows Pakistan's former foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, being rearrested from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Dec 27, 2023.

Pakistan's former foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, was rearrested on Wednesday and manhandled during the process shortly after being released on bail from a prison facility near the capital, Islamabad, in another case.

The 67-year-old opposition politician is the deputy chief of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's opposition, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, party. Both are being tried on charges of making public state secrets involving the United States while in power. Both denounce the trial as a politically driven smear campaign.

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