On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) granted MNA Ali Wazir bail in a hate speech case.
The Supreme Court heard the same case today and granted bail to Mohammad Ali Wazir, the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).
MNA Ali Wazir was arrested on December 16 last year at the request of Sindh Police in connection with a case filed against him and several leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Karachi following a recent public meeting.
They were accused of plotting a criminal conspiracy and making disparaging remarks about government institutions, among other things.
He was arrested at the request of Sindh police, according to the then-Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mohammad Ali Gandapur, after a case was filed against him at Karachi’s Sohrab Goth police station.
The MNA was moved to Karachi by Peshawar Police after completing legal processes and obtaining his transit custody from the court.
Muhammad Ali Wazir is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the co-founder of a human rights movement, the Pashtun Tahafuz 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).
Wazir’s 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 of others (including Arif Wazir).
