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FIRs against PTM activists protested

By Our Correspondent
March 18, 2018

PESHAWAR: The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) and Pakhtun Zalmi Swat on Saturday staged protest against the registration of first information reports (FIRs) against their leaders in Qilla Saifullah, Zhob, Swat and Quetta.

The protest rally was staged outside the Peshawar Press Club, which was led among others by Haider Mohmand, Ghairat Yousafzai, Aimal Khan Yousafzai, and Mazhar Azad. The protest demonstration was attended by a number of lawyers and members of the civil society.

The speakers said that FIRs had been registered against the leaders of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement in Qilla Saifullah, Zhob, Swat and Quetta by authorities for their only crime of seeking their rights.

They said the fake cases had been registered against the leaders Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement and the protest would continue till their constitutional and lawful struggle for their rights. The protesting activists of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement and Pakhtun Zalmi Swat demanded the withdrawal of cases against their leaders.