Pakistani authorities arrest Manzoor Pashteen, leader of PTM, a group that accuses the army of extrajudicial killings and illegal disappearances
Pakistani security forces on Monday arrested the leader of a human rights group that has accused the military of committing widespread abuses in its war on terror.
The group contends that the military is waging a campaign of intimidation as it battles militants in the country's rugged border region near Afghanistan. The group says the army's heavy-handed tactics include extrajudicial killings and thousands of disappearances and detentions. The case of illegal disappearances and detentions has been taken up beforein the past without directly naming the army.
A prominent Pakistani rights leader Afrasiab Khattak criticised the arrest, saying it “exposes the colonial type repressive state policy against Pashtun in general,” as well as the people of the former tribal region of North Waziristan in particular. On May 26 2019, a group of protesters led by the PTM's serving parliamentarians Dawar and Wazir was fired upon by soldiers at a security check post, according to PTM representatives and social media.
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