islamabad rally Archives - Dissent Today https://dissenttoday.net/tag/islamabad-rally/ Speaking Truth to Power Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:46:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 PTM Workers Face Crackdown, Restrictions Ahead of Islamabad Rally Against Enforced Disappearances https://dissenttoday.net/featured/ptm-workers-face-crackdown-restrictions-ahead-of-islamabad-jalsa-outside-supreme-court/ https://dissenttoday.net/featured/ptm-workers-face-crackdown-restrictions-ahead-of-islamabad-jalsa-outside-supreme-court/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:46:43 +0000 https://dissenttoday.net/?p=4548 Ahead of civil rights group Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)’s rally against enforced disappearances outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, several PTM activists and supporters have been arrested on their way to the federal capital. The arrestees include workers of National Democratic Movement (NDM). On Thursday, Islamabad administration imposed Section 144 for an indefinite period, banning […]

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]]> Ahead of civil rights group Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)’s rally against enforced disappearances outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, several PTM activists and supporters have been arrested on their way to the federal capital. The arrestees include workers of National Democratic Movement (NDM).

On Thursday, Islamabad administration imposed Section 144 for an indefinite period, banning rallies in the federal capital. The PTM jalsa is scheduled to be held at 3pm today (Friday), and organisers have vowed to go ahead with it despite the crackdown and restrictions.

PTM’s Naimatullah Wazir and NDM’s Hassan Nasir are among those who have been taken into custody. Earlier, more than 80 members of the PTM were reportedly arrested from Shewa, Hangu after the police stopped their convoy heading to Islamabad.

Activist Talimand Khan announced on X (formerly Twitter) that his younger brother had been arrested “as part of midnight crackdown on PTM”.

Lawyer and human rights activist Imaan Mazari said that the crackdown on PTM has been ongoing since 2018 and includes arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of its workers as well as mala fide prosecutions against them. “This is the second big jalsa they are planning to hold in Islamabad. They are being fed to the wolves in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as is but the State is now trying to entirely suppress their voices through this latest crackdown,” she told Dissent Today.
“PTM’s message resonates with the youth and the State sees that as a threat.”
The rally comes following a joint campaign by a number of human rights organisations on social media against enforced disappearances and for the recover of missing persons. PTM chief Manzoor Pashteen invited the representatives of human rights movements in Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and other provinces to join PTM’s jalsa in the capital.

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