ISLAMABAD, May 26: Poor Begum Nawazish Ali of the entertainment world is in big trouble. Her charms have not worked in the real world of tough police.

Instead of entertaining any celebrity on her television show, she had to spend Thursday night in the lock-up of Bhara Kahu Police Station for a slip that was even pardoned.

Ali Saleem, whose acts as Begum Nawazish Ali in his popular show, was detained by police after his mother, Farzana Saleem, called Rescue 15, saying he had beaten her up badly.

Bhara Kahu police reached her house in Banigala and removed her to the Federal Government Services Hospital where doctors found her nose had broken. While she received treatment in the hospital, Ali Saleem was taken to Bhara Kahu Police Station and, after a medical check-up, booked him under the Narcotics Act.

Meanwhile, relatives arrived on learning of the privations of the mother and son. They persuaded the mother to pardon Ali Saleem for his bad manners. She did and withdrew her complaint to police against him.However, the Bhara Kahu police said the “legal process” they had begun require them to produce Ali Saleem before a court to decide whether he should be set free or sent to jail on remand. He will be taken to a court on Friday.

But what provoked the whole ugly affair? Police quoted Ali Saleem as saying that he had a piece of land in Banigala in the name of his mother and built a house on it, with Rs6 million borrowed from a bank and Rs3 million of his own. His mother, separated from her husband, however, sold the house for Rs25 million.

Since she would not give him his share to settle his financial obligations, he blew up in a rage on Thursday morning, said Ali Saleem, according to the police.

Anyone there with a good script to take Begum Nawazish Ali off the hook?