{"id":17558,"date":"2025-08-26T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17558"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:04:03","slug":"engineer-muhammad-ali-mirza-held-in-preventative-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17558","title":{"rendered":"Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza held in ‘preventative detention’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza was taken into ‘preventative custody’\u00a0from his academy in Jhelum, police said on Tuesday, a day after reports of his arrest surfaced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Jhelum\u00a0Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Meesam Abbas and District Police Officer Ahmed Mohiyuddin, Mirza\u2019s was detained under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order ordinance.<\/p>\n

Under Section 3 of the MPO, the authorities have the power to arrest and detain suspects to prevent \u201cany person from acting in any manner prejudicial to public safety\u201d or to maintain public order.<\/p>\n

The police clarified\u00a0that this\u00a0so-called arrest\u00a0stands as\u00a0“preventative detention\u201d and no criminal charge has been levied against him.<\/p>\n

According to Punjab Police,\u00a0statements made by Mirza in a certain viral\u00a0video could cause sectarian violence, making his detention under the MPO \u201cinevitable\u201d.<\/p>\n

He’s being detained for 30 days on the orders of Jhelum Deputy Commissioner Syed Maysam Abbas, according to district police.\u00a0Mirza\u2019s “Islamic Academy” in Jhelum has also been sealed, added police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Express Tribune was able to contact some acquaintances of Mirza, who stated that Mirza had agreed to go into custody if it meant avoiding violence.<\/p>\n

Read: Religious scholar Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza arrested in Jhelum<\/p>\n

Details regarding the case are scarce but what we do know is that on Sunday, a group of religious figures met the Jhelum deputy commissioner and submitted a written complaint demanding action against \u201ccontroversial statements\u201d Mirza made in said video.<\/p>\n

Mirza\u2019s first run-in with the law was in May of 2020, when he was charged on allegations of making derogatory comments about other religious scholars. He was later released on bail.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Mirza found himself embroiled in yet another controversy with a\u00a0blasphemy charge was filed against him in April of that year.<\/p>\n

Mirza has\u00a0survived three assassination attempts in 2019, 2021, and 2023. In 2023, a madrasa student barged into Mirza\u2019s Research academy armed with a knife. Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) had also offered a bounty of Rs500,000 on Mirza\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

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Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza was taken into ‘preventative custody’\u00a0from his academy in Jhelum, police said on Tuesday, a day after reports of his arrest surfaced.\u00a0 According to Jhelum\u00a0Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Meesam Abbas and District Police Officer Ahmed Mohiyuddin, Mirza\u2019s was detained under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order ordinance. Under Section 3 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}