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Pashtun Rights Activist Dies After Shooting Attack In Pakistan's Tribal Areas
May 02, 2020

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Sardar Arif Wazir

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 he was traveling in came under fire in the city of Wanna.
The attackers, who fired from another vehicle, have not been identified.

Police officials have confirmed that a search operation is under way to find the perpetrators of the attack, for which no group has claimed responsibility.

The rights watchdog Amnesty International on May 2 calledon "the Pakistani authorities to carry out an independent and effective investigation."

The attack came after Pakistani police arrested Wazir on April 17 for delivering an "anti-Pakistan" speech during a recent visit to Afghanistan. He was released on bail this week.

Mohsin Dawar, a member of Pakistan’s lower house of parliament and prominent figure in the PTM, earlier accused “state-sponsored militants” of carrying out the attack.
“The masters of the attackers should know that bullets, injuries, and prisons can't weaken our resolve,” he wrote on Twitter.

There was no immediate response from the government.

The PTM has campaigned for civil rights for Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic minority, since 2018.

The group has attracted tens of thousands of people to public rallies to denounce the powerful Pakistani Army's heavy-handed operations against militants in tribal regions that have killed thousands of Pashtun civilians and forced millions more to abandon their homes since 2003.

The PTM has been calling for the removal of military checkpoints in tribal areas and an end to "enforced disappearances," in which suspects are detained by security forces without due process.

Pakistan's government rejects allegations that its security forces and intelligence agents are responsible for forced disappearances.

Since the movement was formed in January 2018, international rights groups say authorities have banned peaceful rallies organized by the PTM and some of its leading members have been arbitrarily detained and prevented from traveling within the country. Some members have also faced charges of sedition and cybercrimes.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said the authorities have made allegations of anti-state activities “an expedient label for human rights defenders, particularly those associated with the PTM."
 

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No news or loss here.

When I was in grade 5 we had an old Afghani man sit outside our school and give 10 pellets for 1 Rs to shoot at the target balloons.

he would keep shouting :

mar gaya mardood
Na fatiha na darood.....

he was referring to Russians but you hopefully get my point.
 

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Gossips of family dispute, but that's not important. It would be adjusted in account of ISI in any case.
Best thing for North and South Waziristan was Jalaluddin Haqqani, and Haqqanis were not anti Pakistan, but they want to control the area by themselves. Okay, control it now.
 

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Gossips of family dispute, but that's not important. It would be adjusted in account of ISI in any case.
Best thing for North and South Waziristan was Jalaluddin Haqqani, and Haqqanis were not anti Pakistan, but they want to control the area by themselves. Okay, control it now.
Tribal societies are complex not simple and straightforward like rest. He was not killed by state everyone knows that it's all about power struggle and it's not this group there are other groups too so this seasaw will continue. But weakning of Ghani and sharing power with taliban and abdullah will hamper PTM many folds.
 

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Pashtun Rights Activist Dies After Shooting Attack In Pakistan's Tribal Areas
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Sardar Arif Wazir

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 he was traveling in came under fire in the city of Wanna.
The attackers, who fired from another vehicle, have not been identified.

Police officials have confirmed that a search operation is under way to find the perpetrators of the attack, for which no group has claimed responsibility.

The rights watchdog Amnesty International on May 2 calledon "the Pakistani authorities to carry out an independent and effective investigation."

The attack came after Pakistani police arrested Wazir on April 17 for delivering an "anti-Pakistan" speech during a recent visit to Afghanistan. He was released on bail this week.

Mohsin Dawar, a member of Pakistan’s lower house of parliament and prominent figure in the PTM, earlier accused “state-sponsored militants” of carrying out the attack.
“The masters of the attackers should know that bullets, injuries, and prisons can't weaken our resolve,” he wrote on Twitter.

There was no immediate response from the government.

The PTM has campaigned for civil rights for Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic minority, since 2018.

The group has attracted tens of thousands of people to public rallies to denounce the powerful Pakistani Army's heavy-handed operations against militants in tribal regions that have killed thousands of Pashtun civilians and forced millions more to abandon their homes since 2003.

The PTM has been calling for the removal of military checkpoints in tribal areas and an end to "enforced disappearances," in which suspects are detained by security forces without due process.

Pakistan's government rejects allegations that its security forces and intelligence agents are responsible for forced disappearances.

Since the movement was formed in January 2018, international rights groups say authorities have banned peaceful rallies organized by the PTM and some of its leading members have been arbitrarily detained and prevented from traveling within the country. Some members have also faced charges of sedition and cybercrimes.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said the authorities have made allegations of anti-state activities “an expedient label for human rights defenders, particularly those associated with the PTM."
Good riddance
 

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I dont understand why it's always us Pakhtoons getting the short end of the stick. Why is the government always sleeping until thousands of us die? First FATA then Swat then FATA again and now this PTM, this is ridiculous. I've had enough of this negligence. A more sincere government would have banned and jailed them on the accounts of treason and inciting hate.
 

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Gossips of family dispute, but that's not important. It would be adjusted in account of ISI in any case.
Best thing for North and South Waziristan was Jalaluddin Haqqani, and Haqqanis were not anti Pakistan, but they want to control the area by themselves. Okay, control it now.
ISI lol. If ISI and the GOP was every sympathetic with us then those things I mentioned above wouldnt have happend.
 
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