Rights lawyer Jalila Haider on Monday was detained at the Lahore airport for a few hours before being stopped from travelling to London as her name was on a ‘watch-list’, Geo News reported.
Quoting unnamed sources, the TV channel said that Haider’s name was included in the list as she was involved in ‘anti-state’ activities.
She was detained by the officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport for around six hours, sources said. The rights activist was released after she recorded a statement.
The Women Democratic Front president was reportedly going to attend a conference in London.
In October last year, Haider was named among the 100 most influential women of 2019 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). She is a lawyer providing free legal services to women in poverty across the country.
Besides being a vocal activist for the rights of women, she is also the founder of We the Humans, a non-profit organisation working with local communities to provide opportunities for vulnerable women.
According to the British broadcaster, she is the first female lawyer from the Hazara community in Pakistan.
Taking to social networking platform Twitter after the BBC announcement last year, Haider had expressed profound joy at being being named in the list, saying she was honored by the mention.
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