{"id":32456,"date":"2023-12-07T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/ptms-manzoor-pashteen-remanded-in-islamabad-police-custody-for-7-days\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:45:11","slug":"ptms-manzoor-pashteen-remanded-in-islamabad-police-custody-for-7-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ptms-manzoor-pashteen-remanded-in-islamabad-police-custody-for-7-days\/","title":{"rendered":"PTM\u2019s Manzoor Pashteen remanded in Islamabad police custody for 7 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Thursday handed over Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen in police custody for seven days.<\/p>\n

Pashteen was arrested<\/a> in Balochistan\u2019s Chaman on December 4 by Levies and police personnel from the Gudhamo area on disputed claims of firing by his party and local police.<\/p>\n

Police claimed the PTM chief was arrested after gunshots were fired at police from his vehicle, while Pashteen\u2019s party had alleged<\/a> that law enforcement agencies fired at his vehicle when he was on his way from Chaman to Turbat.<\/p>\n

Last week, Pahsteen had announced joining the protest<\/a> against the alleged extrajudicial killing of Balaach Mola Bakh\u00ad\u00adsh in Turbat. The protest has been going on for more than a week after CTD claimed to have killed Bakhsh, along with three other men, in an encounter on November 24.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Balochistan caretaker Minister for Information Jan Achakzai said Pashteen had been \u201csafely handed over<\/a>\u201d to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Dera Ismail Khan police. He said the PTM chief was expelled from Balochistan and the provincial government was mulling banning the party.<\/p>\n

However, in a post on X (formerly Twitter) yesterday, lawmaker Mohsin Dawar said Pashteen was not produced before any court since his arrest on Dec 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe remains forcibly disappeared. The state is violating the law openly and brazenly. We demand the immediate production of Manzoor in court,\u201d Dawar added.<\/p>\n

Today, Pashteen was produced before the court of Abual Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain amid tight security.<\/p>\n

At the outset of the hearing, the police sought the PTM chief\u2019s seven-day physical remand. However, Pashteen\u2019s lawyer argued that there were no grounds for handing him over to the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolding rallies is our right. Pashteen\u2019s vehicle was fired at in Balochistan,\u201d he said, adding that the former was \u201ckidnapped\u201d from Chaman and presented in court today after three days.<\/p>\n

After hearing arguments from both sides, the court approved Pashteen\u2019s seven-day physical remand.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Thursday handed over Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen in police custody for seven days. Pashteen was arrested in Balochistan\u2019s Chaman on December 4 by Levies and police personnel from the Gudhamo area on disputed claims of firing by his party and local police. Police claimed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/071321004523118.png?r=132112","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t