Sindh police book scores of PTM workers, leaders under terrorism charges

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Sindh police book scores of PTM workers, leaders under terrorism charges

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  Alamzaib Khan (centre), who was arrested on Monday by police, has been described as leading a campaign against missing persons and the use of landmines. Photo: Twitter/@zohrakhan1222
  
  Sindh police on Monday registered a case against scores of Pashtoon Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leaders and workers under terrorism charges after the party held a rally in Karachi's Sohrab Goth area on Sunday.
  
  According to the FIR of the incident, police accused speakers at the rally of using "undesirable language against state institutions". The FIR (22/2019) was registered on behalf of the State through Sohrab Goth Station House Officer Rao Zakir.
  
  
  
  
  A copy of the FIR registered against PTM leaders.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Editorial: Rally in Karachi
  
  According to the contents of the FIR, the workers of PTM, "under directions of Manzoor Pashteen organized the rally at a ground behind Al-Asif Square on Sunday."
  
  "The complainant SHO, who was patrolling the area, after receiving information rushed to the spot and asked the PTM president of the area, Naurazay Tareen, to furnish permission of the meeting.
  
  “He [the organizer of the rally] became jittery, created hindrance in official work and chanted slogans against state institutions and police, while other people also joined him on the stage in raising slogans,” as per the contents of the FIR.
  
  The police alleged that the organizers did not listen to the SHO and spread provocation, "creating an atmosphere of serious fear and chaos.”
  
  The police invoked Sections 147, 149, 186, 153-A, 500 and 505 of the Pakistan Penal Code and 7-ATA (Anti-Terrorism Act) against 250-300 persons, including 16 identified by name.
  
  Earlier, North Waziristan MNA Mohsin Dawar had taken to Twitter to highlight the arrest and subsequent disappearance of Alamzeb Mehsud, described as an active member of the PTM and a campaigner for missing persons.
  
  The lawmaker said that the young man's arrest was the latest in a series of incidents involving Sindh police and security agencies harassing PTM workers and activists following the party’s successful rally in Karachi on Sunday.
  
  Dawar demanded the immediate release of Alamzaib and other PTM workers in his statement.
  
  
  Mohsin Dawar
  
  ✔@mjdawar
  https://twitter.com/mjdawar/status/1087302175125135360
  
  After a successful PTM Rally in Karachi, The Sindh Police along with security agencies has started harassing PTM members. They have picked up active member PTM Alamzaib Mehsud and shifted him to unknown location. We demand immediate release of Alamzaib and other PTM comrades.
  
  
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  A senior official who wished not to be named said that Alamzeb Mehsud was arrested for being an organiser of the said rally.
  
  Videos of what seemed to be mobile phone recordings of the arrest, which were circulated on social media, showed law enforcement officials in uniform and plain clothes brandishing weapons and forcing an unconfirmed number of young men out of their vehicle.
  
  In one of the videos, a plainclothesman can be seen pointing a handgun directly at the car's occupants.
  
  
  Sabir Hussain Syed@SabirHussainSy8
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  Photograph does not says he is activistic.
  
  
  meena gabeena@gabeeno
  
  The photograph of the young man with little children with a smile on his face is #AlamZaib , the other photo is of the man who tried pointed a gun at him and abducted him with a team. Below is the video
  
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  Dr Gul@drrehanagul
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  Alamzaib khan Mehsud renowned PTM activist arrested by rangers and karachi police.#ReleaseAlamZaib#ReleaseKarachiPTMActivists
  
  
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  The regional chapter of Amnesty International also expressed concern over the disappearance of the PTM activist.
  
  “We are concerned about reports of the disappearance of PTM activist Alamzeb Mehsud. His whereabouts must be disclosed immediately. Either produce him in court or release him without delay,” read a statement issued by the human rights watchdog.
  
  
  Amnesty International South Asia@amnestysasia
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  We are concerned about reports of the disappearance of PTM activist Alamzeb Mehsud. His whereabouts must be disclosed immediately. Either produce him in court or release him without delay.
  
  
  Amnesty International South Asia@amnestysasia
  
  Alamzaib was picked up from Karachi earlier today. Other PTM activists with him were allegedly beaten up. Freedom of peaceful assembly must be protected. Activists must never be attacked. #ReleaseAlamZaib #Pakistan
  
  
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  According to the details of the incident shared by Amnesty International, “Mehsud was picked up from Karachi earlier today. Other PTM activists with him were allegedly beaten up. Freedom of peaceful assembly must be protected. Activists must never be attacked.”
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Good work.

 

[El Sidd]

I guess they are Not so wonderful in Sindh

 

[koolio]

I thought these PTM were brothers of Pee Pee Pee, but anyway its good they are booked and locked in jails if they have made anti state speeches which should not be tolerated.

 

[Tokhme khar]

There are millions of these Afghani pashtu refugees in Iran. So many in our camps. If you speak to them they tell you they were born in refugee camps in Pakistan. They all speak in Persian now, most having forgotten their native language. We still unofficially host 2+ million Afghani in Iran. More keep coming. Just a total mess. When will these guys sort out their problems?

@naveedullahkhankhattak

 

[Moon]

I thought these PTM were brothers of Pee Pee Pee, but anyway its good they are booked and locked in jails if they have made anti state speeches which should not be tolerated.

They are; just see how PPP will pull strings of the puppet Sindh Police and they'll soon be out.

 

[xyxmt]

There are millions of these Afghani pashtu refugees in Iran. So many in our camps. If you speak to them they tell you they were born in refugee camps in Pakistan. They all speak in Persian now, most having forgotten their native language. We still unofficially host 2+ million Afghani in Iran. More keep coming. Just a total mess. When will these guys sort out their problems?

@naveedullahkhankhattak

we have a curse called democracy

 

[Tokhme khar]

This pashtu guy here has Iranian name 'Naveed'......we host a million of his people in Iran as refugees if not more, but he hates Iran! Can you believe some people here?.....

we have a curse called democracy

 

[Crystal-Clear]

There are millions of these Afghani pashtu refugees in Iran. So many in our camps. If you speak to them they tell you they were born in refugee camps in Pakistan. They all speak in Persian now, most having forgotten their native language. We still unofficially host 2+ million Afghani in Iran. More keep coming. Just a total mess. When will these guys sort out their problems?

@naveedullahkhankhattak

they are freeloader by nature

 

[Tokhme khar]

You can't say no to the hungry or Fagheer. If we don't take them in they will die! btw, we also still host millions of Iraqi/ kurdish on our other end! UN pays fukk all, mofo don't wanna pay for these failed states and the millions of refugees. And when we deport them they come back wearing burqa the next day!

Man talk about being in the middle of failed states! There's no hope for our region.

they are freeloader by nature

 

[Crystal-Clear]

You can't say no to the hungry or Fagheer.

wait a while since those hungry faqeer start asking for equal rights like locals and then start threatening to rebel .

 

[Tokhme khar]

man sometimes I just lose hope.......shit is messed up! The realization that deporting 2 million + Afghani ain't happening is a very real possibility for us. They refuse to go back, even though Western Afghanistan is relatively peaceful around Herat et al. Now half of them born in Iran........just imagine! They look at our kids and society and want to become Iranian citizens. No fukking way they going back. Impossible!

P.S. Its easy to be heartless here on the forum, but when you go to these Afghani refugee camps, its a humanitarian catastrophe.

wait a while since those hungry faqeer start asking for equal rights like locals and then start threatening to rebel .

 

[Crystal-Clear]

man sometimes I just lose hope.......shit is messed up! The realization that deporting 2 million + Afghani ain't happening is a very real possibility for us. They refuse to go back, even though Western Afghanistan is relatively peaceful around Herat et al. Now half of them born in Iran........just imagine! They look at our kids and society and want to become Iranian citizens. No fukking way they going back. Impossible!

P.S. Its easy to be heartless here on the forum here, but when you go to these Afghani refugee camps, its a humanitarian catastrophe.

i know but think about the mess they bring with themselves (drug culture , AK-47 culture) .

 

[Tokhme khar]

Man you got no clue.......on our west we got Iraqi Chaldian/ Assyrian/ Shia/ Sunni, Yazidi and Kurdish and what not. Millions of them.........It's beyond hope!

i know but think about the mess they bring with themselves (drug culture , AK-47 culture) .

 

[Kabira]

There are millions of these Afghani pashtu refugees in Iran. So many in our camps. If you speak to them they tell you they were born in refugee camps in Pakistan. They all speak in Persian now, most having forgotten their native language. We still unofficially host 2+ million Afghani in Iran. More keep coming. Just a total mess. When will these guys sort out their problems?

@naveedullahkhankhattak

In Iran they are mostly farsi speaking tajiks, hazaras etc not pashtuns.