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As the year 2020 was coming to a close, Ali Wazir, Member of the National Assembly from constituency NA-50 Wana, South Waziristan was arrested on the request of Sindh Police on 16th December while he was travelling to Peshawar to join a ceremony in the memory of Army Public School Children, (...)
THE circumstances surrounding the arrest of Ali Wazir, PTM leader and South Waziristan MNA, are curious to say the least. He was taken into custody in Peshawar last week on charges of hate speech, criminal conspiracy, etc while addressing a rally in Karachi on Dec 6. Several other PTM leaders, (...)
PESHAWAR: Police arrested MNA Ali Wazir here on Wednesday in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Karachi after a recent public meeting.
They have been accused of committing several offences, including hatching a criminal (...)
Swat Valley used to be green. Now the green looks dull and grey. The people living here are tired. They forget. And when personal histories, and personal and collective geographies are marred with memories of violence, isn’t short-term memory loss the natural answer? Who has the courage to (...)
On Friday, the 1st of May, Arif Wazir, a leader of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), was shot three times by unknown assailants near his home in Wanna, Waziristan. He was critically injured and rushed to a local hospital. He was then shifted to Dera Ismail Khan and further to Islamabad’s PIMS (...)
Arif Wazir is the eighteenth adult male in Ali Wazir’s family that has been killed in the last decade.
Arif Wazir, a Pushtun rights activist and a central leader of the Pushtun Protection Movement (PTM) | Photo: Social Media
Arif Wazir, a Pushtun rights activist and a central leader of the (...)
This comment from a retired civil servent reflects the frustrations of those Pakistanis who oppose the regime’s repression of the Pashtuns.
In September, MNAs Mohsin Dawar and Ali Wazir [leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) - editors], were granted bail after being imprisoned for their (...)
An international solidarity campaign has been ongoing since late May, following the bloody repression of the Pashtoon Defence Movement (Pashtun Tahfuz Movement - PTM) by the Pakistani army. It is important to continue this, as the stakes are so high.
The Pashtuns (Pathans) live in northwestern (...)
On May 26, the army fired on a non-violent protest of the Pashtun Defence Movement (PTM), killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens. The two Members of the National Assembly of the PTM were arrested, Ali Wazeer first, Mohsin Dawar later. Curfew was imposed on Waziristan.
An International (...)
A violent crackdown on the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) by state security forces is underway in Pakistan. International solidarity is crucial and the Left in Britain has a particular responsibility to play its part, write Seth Uzman and Snehal Shingavi.
PTM protest in Loralai, Balochistan. (...)
The Pakistani army is trying to crush the rising tide of Pashtun nationalism and demand for civil rights in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The Pakistan army shot and killed at least 13 civilians and injured dozens more at a sit-in staged by the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (...)
On November 30th, two members of Pakistan’s federal parliament (National Assembly), Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, were stopped from boarding a UAE flight at Peshawar airport. They were detained for over six hours by the state agencies to make sure that they cannot travel abroad.
This is the (...)
“In the end, it is obvious that the government is in complete complicity with this dangerous accused, Rao Anwar, and facilitating him in every way to damage the case...”
The granting of bail to former Malir SSP Rao Anwar in the Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case, on July 10 has caused a sense of (...)
On June 3rd Ali Wazir and thousands of supporters were brutally fired upon by the so-called “Peace Committee” or the “Good Taliban” in Wana, South Waziristan. According to independent media reports, 8 have been killed and 25 injured. These state-sponsored vigilantes called ‘Peace Committee’ in the (...)
Gunmen open fire on gathering led by activist Ali Wazir in South Waziristan, wounding at 25 people.
Islamabad, Pakistan - At least 25 people have been wounded after an attack by gunmen on members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (Pashtun Protection Movement or PTM) rights group in northwestern (...)
The situation in Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) in the north western Pakistan has been simmering in the last months. The British imperialists called these badlands and consequently carved the region to contain the Pushtoon tribes straddling across their imposed Durand Line of 1893. (...)
IN the past year, two important movements relating to Pakhtuns and led by Pakhtun youth have emerged in Pakistan: the movement for merging Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or the Fata Youth Jirga; and what is referred to as the Pakhtun Long March that has demanded an (...)
After years of tension and exclusion, it seems Pakistan’s Pashtuns – the country’s second-largest ethnic group – have had enough. In January, a large crowd began protesting after 27-year-old shopkeeper Naqibullah Mehsud was shot dead by a police officer in Karachi.
The protesters marched from (...)
Islamabad (Feb 19): The Awami Workers Party expresses solidarity with the people of Khwaza Khela, Swat, who have come out in protest against the humiliating and often violent treatment meted out to them by security forces at check-posts in the region.
In a joint press statement, AWP Deputy (...)
A tribute to the human rights activist Zarteef Khan Afridi who was shot dead recently – my article in The News on Sunday. Latitude News earlier published a shorter, different version titled In Pakistan, an unlikely hero dies for his cause. Also see my earlier article: Pakistan’s ‘enlightenment’ (...)
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