Tags : Pashtun Tahafuz Movement

Pashtun Rights Activist Dies After Shooting Attack in Waziristan

Pashtun rights activist and political leader Sardar Arif Wazir has died of injuries sustained in a shooting attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district. The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a rights group that Wazir helped lead, confirmed to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that Wazir died in Islamabad on May 2. Wazir was injured when the vehicle […]Read More

Balochistan: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement CC member killed in Loralai

QUETTA: A leader of Pashtun Tahafuz [Protection] Movement (PTM) has died at after alleged Police torture in district Loralai Balochistan on Saturday. According to the details, Ibrahim Armaan Luni, a Core Committee Member of the PTM was beaten up by the Police and badly wounded. He later succumbed to death in the hospital. The PTM […]Read More

Pakistani rights group attracts 8,000 to rally despite state pressure

LAHORE: The leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement(PTM), student activist Manzoor Pashteen, delivered an address criticizing the country’s powerful military and its actions in the majority ethnic Pashtun Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). “I urge professional soldiers not to follow the command of the generals and brigadiers. Refuse to obey their orders because they (generals) […]Read More