Aitzaz Ahsan, prominent lawyer, PPP leader, recently-elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, and main advocate against Musharraf in the current Supreme Court case, was among the first people arrested by the regime on Saturday. Amazingly, he was able to give an interview to a news channel from custody.
The original story was this. Ahsan was taken into custody in Islamabad and stripped of his belongings including his mobile phone. At some point, he was allowed to go to the bathroom. As he walked towards the bathroom, one of the policemen allegedly stepped forward to shake his hand and in doing so slipped him a mobile phone. When Ahsan got to the bathroom, he wasted no time and called ARYOne, a news channel. However, it seems that Ahsan wasn't in the bathroom at all. Most likely, in the early confusion of the coup, the police didn't know what exactly to do with him, and so let him make some phone calls.
Below is the interview, broadcast but not aired in Pakistan (due to the news blackout):
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