Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen has still not been produced in court after being arrested on Monday and it is alleged that he was forcibly disappeared by Pakistan\u2019s secret agencies. Former Member of Pakistan National Assembly Mohsin Dawar said: \u201cIt is very concerning that @ManzoorPashteen has not been produced in any court after being arrested on the 4th of December. He remains forcibly disappeared. The state is violating the law openly and brazenly. We demand the immediate production of Manzoor in court.\u201d The PTM leader was arrested after the police were fired at from his vehicle, Chaman Deputy Commissioner Raja Athar Abbas said on Monday, as per Pakistan-based Dawn newspaper.<\/p>\n
The statement came nearly four hours after the PTM itself alleged that Pashteen\u2019s vehicle was fired at by law enforcement agencies (LEAs) while he was on his way from Chaman to Turbat, where protests were taking place against an alleged extra-judicial killing. As per Manzoor Pashteen\u2019s handle on X, \u201c#ManzoorPashteen still not produced in a court despite the passage of two days. If #PTM chief can be abducted & dislocated then how the ordinary ppl will be treated? Enforced disappearance of #ManzoorPashteen is a question mark for all political people.\u201d On Pashteen\u2019s arrest, former Pakistan Senate Member Afrasiab Khattak said the disappearance is yet another effort at pushing the non-violent Pashtun youth to violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cBaloch youth has already been pushed to the wall. Pol parties aren\u2019t uttering a word. Lawlessness will lead to the cycle of anarchy\/fascism,\u201d he said. Meanwhile, the Chaman Deputy Commissioner Abbas on Monday said Levies and police personnel had arrested the PTM leader from the Gudhamo area. \u201cPolice were fired at from Pashteen\u2019s car on Mall Road,\u201d the official said, adding that a case had also been registered against the PTM leader. He said that Pashteen was arrested in connection with the incident. He had said that the PTM leader would later be presented before a district magistrate, as per Dawn.<\/p>\n
However, the PTM had earlier stated that Pashteen, alongside a caravan, was headed from Chaman to Turbat when \u201cpolice and army carried out straight firing on his vehicle\u201d. The statement by the PTM\u2019s social media team was posted on Pashteen\u2019s account on X. It also said that efforts were underway to arrest the party chief and \u201cpolice, Frontier Corps and the army had besieged\u201d the area. On Monday, the Caretaker Balochistan Information Minister Jan Achakzai stated that the PTM is an \u201canti-Pakistan organisation.\u201d He said that Pashteen had been banned from entering Balochistan and the same had also been notified three times by the interior ministry.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe still came to Chaman and staged a rally without the government\u2019s permission. They should have left but he sought refuge in a village [\u2026]. He was hiding there with his guards,\u201d he said while responding to a question during a press conference in Quetta, as per Dawn. \u201cWe have no information about any firing. [He] has his own guards, firing can also happen because of them,\u201d the minister had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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