Intelligence agencies in Pakistan continue to abduct social media activists and vloggers for criticising the government and the powerful military establishment in the country, their families have alleged and approached courts in Punjab province.

Two social media activists of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Naeem Ahmad Yasin and Arsalan Akbar, and vlogger-comedian Aun Ali Khosa, have allegedly been arrested by intelligence agencies in the Punjab province of Pakistan. They have been reported “missing” by their families. The Shehbaz Sharif government and the establishment have been facing scathing criticism on social media for “abducting” Khosa for singing a parody song on soaring electricity bills.