Pashtun leader attacked at Karachi hospital twice, says life in danger
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 24 (ANI): While being admitted to Pakistan's Karachi Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Tuesday prominent Pashtun leader Ali Wazir has claimed that his life is in danger adding that he had been attacked twice at the hospital, local media reported.
Wazir, who is the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) lawmaker from South Waziristan is currently facing sedition charges and is in prison at the Karachi Central Jail since December 31, 2021.
Following the alleged attacks on him, the Pashtun leader demanded that he should be taken to Islamabad to attend the budget session. "I should be taken to Islamabad to attend the budget session [in the NA and] raise the problems of my constituency," Wazir said, reported Dawn.
Wazir complained that this was the second time that he was not being allowed to attend the budget session. He also recalled that a production order for him was issued to attend a previous budget session when he was imprisoned in Haripur jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Now that he is shifted in the hospital, he said that he could be barred from attending the budget session. "This is a session during which lawmakers raise problems being faced by the people of their constituencies," he said, adding that his demand of being shifted from the hospital was not "illegal".
While speaking to Pakistan's local media outlet, the Dawn, the PTM leader Muhammed Sher Mehsud said that Wazir sat outside the hospital in protest as he was not allowed to meet relatives, friends and his party's workers there. "He started his protest at 4 pm on Wednesday," Mehsud said, adding that for Wazir, the "atmosphere at the hospital was suffocating as he had been asked to stay bed-ridden".
The PTM leader was charged with treason and hate speech against the state. However, Wazir denied such allegations and blamed the state for a biased attitude towards minorities. (ANI)
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