MNA Ali Wazir releases from Central Jail Karachi

The Member of the National Assembly (MNA) of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) Ali Wazir was released from Central Jail Karachi.

According to the details, the MNA Ali Wazir was arrested by the police in Peshawar and he was transferred to Central Jail Karachi on 31 December 2020.

Cases have also been registered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for sedition and provocative speeches against member of the National Assembly.

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It is to be mentioned here that Muhammad Ali Wazir is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the co-founder of a human rights movement, PTM. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. During his student life, he was active in the Pashtun Students Federation (PSF), an allied wing of the Awami National Party (ANP).

According to Wikipedia, his family was long active in the Pashtun nationalist movement and opposed to the Talibanization of the former tribal areas, earning them the militants’ enmity. His father (Malik Mirzalam), two brothers (Farooq and Tariq), two uncles (Saadullah Jan and Feroz Khan), and three cousins (Ibrahim, Ishaq and Arif Wazir) were all murdered in targeted killings. On 3 June 2018, Ali Wazir himself survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban in Wanna, South Waziristan, who opened fire on him, killing four supporters of PTM and injuring dozens others (including Arif Wazir).