ABU DHABI: Pakistani journalist Moeed Pirzada and his sister had been released by the UAE authorities, according to journalist Salman Masood.
Moeed Pirzada was arrested in UAE along with his sister, on charges of property fraud, when he had gone to the Arabian Peninsula nation to visit his ailing father.
Salman Masood, resident editor of The Nation’s Islamabad edition and Pakistan correspondent for The New York Times tweeted that Moeed and his sister had been released by UAE authorities the previous evening. However, the news of the release could not be independently confirmed.
