Pakistan: Police arrest Pashtun leader Ali Wazir

The arrested people have been accused of committing several offences, including hatching a criminal conspiracy and passing derogatory remarks against state institutions.

Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mohammad Ali Gandapur told Dawn that Wazir had been arrested at the request of Sindh police as a case had been registered against him at Sohrab Goth police station, Karachi.

The CCPO said that Wazir would be shifted to Karachi after fulfilling legal requirements.

Witnesses told Dawn News that Wazir was arrested after he attended a ceremony held at Shuhada APS Public Library in connection with the sixth anniversary of the Army Public School carnage, which had left 147 people, mostly students, dead. 

According to the newspaper, several leaders of the PTM, who have also been charged in the case, were also present but were not held.

The FIR was registered on Dec 7, a day after the PDM public meeting. The case was registered under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups), 505-B (statements for inducing a person to commit offence against state), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 188 (disobeying order of public servant) of the Pakistan Penal Code, reports Dawn News.