Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested an absconding Pashtun lawmaker who was allegedly involved in the attack on a military post in which five soldiers were injured. Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader and parliament member Mohsin Dawar was arrested from North Waziristan, said Shaukat Yousafzai, a spokesman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
The PTM, which works for the rights of local Pushtu-speaking people, is against, what it claims, the military’s excessive use of force against local tribesmen.
Dawar and Ali Wazir, also a legislator, allegedly led the attack on Sunday by protestors in North Waziristan on a security checkpost that resulted in the death of three activists.
