A Religious Leader named “Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani” from KPK’s Lakki Marwat district has been arrested for threatening Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai on her recent remarks regarding Marriage/Partnership.
According to Dawn, Lakki Marwat District Police Officer (DPO) confirmed that an arrest had taken place on Wednesday after a FIR was filed against the Mufti under Anti-Terrorism Act.
According to the FIR, a video was also circulating on social media showing Mufti at a gathering in Peshawar in which he was urging the people to attack Malala by taking law into their own hands.
Moreover, he also said that he will be the first one to attempt a suicide attack on Malala whenever she returns to Pakistan. The religious leader was also armed as per the FIR.
It also added that Mufti didn’t try to file any application on any legal forum but instead he expressed to take the law into his own hands and also tried to urge others, He got arrested after these life threatening statements made against Malala.