Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen, who had been arrested from Shaheen Town of Peshawar in January, was on Tuesday released from jail.
According to reports, the Pashtun rights activist was arrested in a case registered against him at the City Police Station in Dera Ismail Khan on January 18 under sections 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups), 120-B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 124 (sedition), and 123-A (condemning the creation of the country and advocating the abolishment of its sovereignty) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
Later, a sessions court in Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) had granted bail to the PTM chief, while also granting him bail in a similar case by a Dera Ismail Khan court.
Pashteen’s bail applications in two other cases — also pertaining to sedition — were approved by the DI Khan court on February 8. MNA and PTM’s senior leader Mohsin Dawar had said that Pashteen would be released from jail once legal formalities were completed.
