Lahore: Anchor and YouTuber Imran Riaz Khan said he was stopped at the Lahore Airport when he was trying to travel to UAE.
Authorities informed him that his name had been “blacklisted” and that he could not leave the country.
Imran Riaz stated that his luggage was seized and was asked to wait. He stated that he could be arrested at the airport. Previously, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed was apprehended in Rawalpindi during a late-night police raid.
Imran Riaz Khan is a Pakistani journalist and a Youtuber.
He started his career as a news anchor and journalist on the Express-News channel. He started his YouTube channel “Imran Riaz Khan” in 2020, which as of October 2022 has more than 3.48 million subscribers.
While entering Islamabad Toll Plaza on 5 July 2022, he was driving “to the federal capital to get bail from the Islamabad High Court,” and was arrested when Punjab Police surrounded his car before he could pass out of Punjab jurisdiction, despite being aware of court orders by the Islamabad and Lahore High Courts, and issuances of protective pre-arrest bail grants, intended to avoid an arrest of the journalist.
Riaz later uploaded a video on YouTube stating that if he is not released, he will release the names of everyone who is behind the alleged regime change operation in which foreign influence provoked a constitutional crisis, ultimately ending with the PTI government of Imran Khan being ousted when the former Prime Minister was removed from office in what he calls an “American conspiracy” against the sovereignty of Pakistan.
