Repeated arrests, filthy cells: Inside Pakistan's crackdown

FILE PHOTO: People throw stones at police during a protest against former Prime Minister Imran Khan's arrest, in Peshawar, Pakistan, May 10, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Hammad Azhar, who has served as Pakistan's finance and energy minister, says police and plain-clothed officials have burst into his home six times in recent weeks, smashed his belongings and threatened his 82-year-old father, warning that his daughter would be abducted.

Last weekend, he said police and "unknown people" took his father to a police station and released him after they went through his phone for an hour.