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continued harassment faced by her family, US on Friday urged Islamabad to uphold the rights of citizens."We are concerned by reports of the
continued harassment of Gulalai Ismail's family, and her father's detention today
said, according to a tweet by Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.Retweeting the tweet by Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs,
Ms Ismail wrote, "U.S State department is concerned about the detention of my father
By persecuting citizens for exercising their human rights Pakistan is damaging its own reputation."Pakistani women rights activist Gulalai
Ismail, who is currently in the US, on Thursday said that her father was picked up by "men wearing militia dress" in Peshwar."My father has
been picked up by men wearing Malitia dress from outside of Peshawar High Court an hour ago," Ms Ismail had tweeted.Ms Ismail termed the
abduction of her father in Peshawar an attempt to terrorise the women of Pakistan and others who dare to use their "conditional
people who dare use their conditional rights," the women's rights activist has said in another tweet.Ms Ismail managed to escape from
Pakistan to seek political asylum in the United States in September after being accused of treason
She reached the US months after she was arrested and released for holding a protest demonstration outside the National Press Club in
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