ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Renowned Pakistani content creators Rajab Butt and Nadeem Mubarak, better known as Nani Wala, landed in Pakistan late on Tuesday night to turn themselves in ahead of pending cases against them.
The content creators had earlier attained a protective bail from the Islamabad High Court. The two traveled from London and reached Islamabad Airport, where they are expected to turn themselves in today at the Islamabad High Court.
These content creators are no strangers to legal trouble. In September this year, Butt was booked by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, NCCIA, upon a complaint that he was promoting online gambling apps on social media.
The NCCIA also booked Nadeem for allegedly promoting gambling apps on his social media. He was, however, arrested last month for displaying a fake registration number – ‘IK-804’ – on his car. Upon interrogation, he failed to satisfy the police regarding the display of the fake registration number, IK-804, said to be the prisoner number allotted to incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan.
The court had earlier granted the content creators protective bail, on a petition filed by the relatives of Butt and Mubarak, to ensure that the content creators are not arrested on arrival.
“The accused Rajab Butt and Nadeem Mubarak shall not be arrested upon landing at Islamabad Airport till they surrender before this court on the date fixed,” the orders read.
In the meantime, Mian Ali Ashfaq, representative of the Butt, said the YouTuber was not deported from the UK and that he was returning to Pakistan on his own.
“He has left the UK on his own independent choice to return to Pakistan and has already surrendered before the Islamabad High Court today, and by doing such, he’s granted access to reach … Islamabad without any hindrance by or from any administrative authority requiring him in any criminal case,” Ashfaq wrote on X.
In March, Butt was also booked under blasphemy and cybercrime laws due to a “religious stir” caused by the launch of his perfume brand that allegedly mocked Pakistan’s blasphemy law. Butt launched his “295” perfume, referring to the namesake blasphemy law in the Pakistan Penal Code.
Last December, the YouTuber was in legal trouble as he was arrested for keeping a lion cub and some weapons at his residence, illegally. He pleaded guilty in January this year to owning an undocumented wild animal after accepting the cub as a wedding gift.
He avoided going to jail after promising a judge that he would post animal rights videos for a year.
