Two Pakistani parliamentarians and human rights campaigners were released on bail in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after four months in detention, their lawyer said on Saturday.
The two lawmakers, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, along with several activists of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), were arrested after a deadly clash between troops and activists at a security post in northern Pakistan in May. “Both the parliamentarians were released from Haripur jail after midnight,” said Tariq Afghan, their lawyer.
PTM, accused by the military of being funded by foreign intelligence agencies, campaigns against alleged extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances of Pashtuns and other ethic minorities.
