On May 26, the army fired on a non-violent protest by the Pashtun Defence Movement (PTM) in Waziristan, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens.
Ali Wazeer. Photo: Ali Wazeer/Twitter.
Two PTM members of the Pakistan National Assembly, Ali Wazeer and Mohsin Dawar, who led the protest, (...)
When David Miranda intervened in the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense, he thought Ali Wazeer had been released. This information was wrong. What happened is that Ali Wazeer was presented at an anti-terrorist court and was then being sent by the judge to Peshawar Jail. It is (...)
We, as feminists who uphold the peaceful resolution of conflict, stand in solidarity with the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in their struggle for fundamental rights. We condemn the violence that took place on May 26th in the Khar Qamar area of North Waziristan in which 13 civilians were (...)
Yesterday was an explosive day at the national parliament. Bilawal Bhutto, son of Benazhir Bhutto who heads the Pakistan Peoples Party had written a two-page letter addressed to the speaker of the Assembly to order for the production of Ali Wazeer, from jail to the National Parliament on (...)
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the use of live ammunition by the Pakistan army against activists of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in North Waziristan.
SAHR has learnt that the Pakistan security forces opened fire on several (...)
In the morning of Sunday, May 26, 2019, the Pakistani army openend fire on people protesting against its brutal operations in the region bordering Afghanistan. Videos show unarmed, peaceful protesters cheering and chanting slogans when their leaders, Pakistan National Assembly members Ali Wazir (...)
On May 26, 2019 a peaceful procession in the Waziristan region led by Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, both Members of National Assembly (MNAs), was fired upon by army men, leaving at least 13 dead and over forty injured.
Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar were elected as Members of the National Assembly (...)
Pakistan has army brutally beaten Pashtun’s Peaceful protester Ali Wazir. Wazir represents the voice of a nation. Pashtoons strongly condemn such barbaric and brutal use of force by Pakistan Army and request international community and United Nations Security Council to intervene and demand (...)
Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, both members of Pakistan’s National Assembly, have been arrested by the military the morning of Sunday, 26 May 2019 . An international solidarity campaign is launched.
At the present moment in time the whereabouts of comrade Ali Wazir, MNA elected in July 2018 from (...)
The mobilization for the release of Ali Wazeer, PTM Member of Parliament, is quickly taking momentum in Pakistan.
Arrested parliamentarians Ali Wazir has become the top trend on Twitter a day after his arrest on 28th May 2019. Tens of thousands participated in the Twitter company (...)
The latest information about the incident happened in North Waziristan on May 26 has confirmed that Ali Wazir has been transferred to the Peshawar jail and his foot has not been fractured. Recent Videos
Mass communication is great power in these days and the state is using and controlling it (...)
Lahore, 27 May 2019. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is alarmed by the use of military force causing deaths of at least three Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) activists in North Waziristan. HRCP believes that this will further escalate tensions between PTM supporters and security (...)
In the morning of Sunday, 26 May 2019, a sit-in of the affected villagers at Kharqamar check post, Boyya, North Waziristan was going on. Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar both members of Pakistan’s National Assembly arrived at the sit-in site to support the protest leading their caravan from Bannu. A (...)
On Thursday, March 28th the renowned singer, left-wing politician and chairman of Barabri Party Pakistan, Jawad Ahmad was barred from speaking at an event organised in the premises of Faisalabad Arts Council after he had criticized Prime Minister Imran Khan.
While speaking at the event his mic (...)
Dr Ammar Ali Jan at the Gulberg police station in Lahore. - Photo by Imran Gabol
Lahore-based academic Dr Ammar Ali Jan was released after receiving bail from Model Town Katchery following his arrest from his residence in an early morning raid on Saturday.
After the raid, Jan was taken to the (...)
The silencing of Pakistan
The state is trying to decimate dissent in hopes of resuscitating a political order that has lost all vitality.
Pakistan is silencing discussion on a growing number of topics, causing concern among human rights activists, journalists and political dissidents in the (...)
Recent events have once again raised the spectre of force and violence in our fragile polity. The arrests of opposition leaders and political activists have ignited memories of the decades from the 80s to the 2000s, when the opposition was found either in jail or in exile. The problems being (...)
Nine members of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) and Red Workers Front were allegedly abducted by the Rangers (a paramilitary unit) this week in Pakistan, for expressing their support to the Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement (PTM). The nation-wide movement against state repression and (...)
Many of the ‘missing persons’ are allegedly picked up by the country’s notorious intelligence services and tortured.
Raza Khan, a young social activist, vanished like many others without any trace . Many suspect the hands of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services.
According to reports, Raza (...)
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports rising forced disappearances, rape and attacks on religious minorities.
An independent watchdog has expressed concern over Pakistan’s commitment to protecting human rights amid an increase in enforced disappearances, blasphemy-related violence and (...)
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