Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has informed that the Bannu police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested the brother of the slain prominent Pashtun poet and PTM senior activist Gilaman Wazir and his nephew.
They have detained the brother of the slain prominent figure, Gilaman wazir, and his nephew, PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen wrote on his Facebook page on November 19, condemning the arrest of Arafat Pashtun and Haazar Khan, who were presented before the Bannu court.
Manzoor Pashteen wrote in his tweet that the Bannu court has detained national martyr Gilaman’s brother Arafat and his nephew Haazar Khan.
Instead of the Pakistani judiciary and police showing at least some humanity and delivering justice to martyr Gilaman, Pakistan, on the contrary, tortures and harasses the family and relatives of the martyr.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani army in the Tirah Narhao area fired a mortar at an innocent Pashtun house, killing Stana Gul and his seven‑year‑old son Muhammad, and injuring his young daughter Safa, who is currently in the hospital.
Today, the Pakistani army once again carried out a drone attack on the mosque in the central Karm, Turtoot Mirza village, killing the faithful.
The Pakistani authorities are ignoring the prominent Pashtun goodwill figures, so that they disappear and the Pashtun nation cannot express grief and resistance.
Contrary to the Pashtuns, after the decline of Pakistani media influence, Pakistan has created local social‑media channels that daily spread poisonous propaganda about various Pashtun regions and peoples.
On the other hand, its parliament passes new bills and resolutions every day to block the paths of Pashtun rights seekers, protect the lives and brutal actions of Pashtun‑killing generals, and make oppression easier.
Every form of the Pakistani state is engaged in hostility against Pashtuns. Its army kills Pashtuns, its judiciary and police imprison Pashtuns, its institutions ignore Pashtuns, its media propagates mental and political propaganda against Pashtuns, its educational institutions turn into servants under Punjab’s influence, and its parliaments pass bills to justify all these inhumane and immoral actions.
No matter how much oppression they commit, our resistance against all these forms will continue. We will not be subdued, we will not retreat from our national stance, but according to our preparation we will become even stronger, so that we may liberate our land from occupation and tyranny.
Pashtin has not provided any further details about this, but a member of Arafat Pashtin’s family, who did not want his name disclosed, told on November 20 that the two were accused of having attacked the judge overlooking the murder of Minister Gilaman. However, he said this claim is baseless and his family has not carried out any attack on the free judge.
The police and the judge’s family have not yet said anything about this.
Manzoor Pashtun, in his own writing, has accused the Pakistani state of arresting members of Gilaman wazir’s family instead of the Wazir’s killers, and of “ignoring the well‑wishers of Pashtuns.”
The Pakistani government has not said anything about this yet, but for over a year it has imposed a ban on PTM, accusing it of inciting people against the state.
PTM and international human‑rights organizations have condemned that ban. The poet and member of the central committee of the Pashtun Rescue Movement, Gilaman Wazir, was killed in Islamabad on 11th July 2024.
His family blamed the murder on a businessman named Azad Dawar and his associates, but the police have not yet arrested him or anyone else in connection with the Wazir’s killing. However, the Islamabad police had opened an investigation into the attack on the Wazir, and officials said the assault was based on “personal enmity,” a claim rejected by the movement and Wazir’s family.
