KHYBER: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chairman Manzoor Pashteen has said his organisation will continue to raise its voice for Pakhtuns and seek justice for those killed in the alleged fake police encounters.

He, along with MNA Ali Wazir, visited Bara tehsil of Khyber district on Sunday to express sympathies with the family of Irfanullah, who was allegedly killed in a fake encounter with the Counter-Terrorism Department’s sleuths in Peshawar on June 22 along with three suspected terrorists.

Later speaking at a protest sit-in organised by Khyber Siyasi Ittehad, Mr Pashteen said his organisation would launch a countrywide protest against the alleged extrajudicial killing of teacher Irfanullah if the family of the deceased so desired.

“We do not promote terrorism, we do not block roads and we do not demolish houses of innocent people”, he said, adding that the PTM would always strive for peace and justice on the “Pakhtun soil”.

He said the PTM was against all those who were responsible for injustice committed against the Pakhtun population.

Mr Pashteen said his organisation would soon be organised at the grassroots level in Khyber district and would then raise its voice for the displaced people of Tirah, the affected traders of Bara bazaar and out-of-school students of the region.

Published in Dawn, June 29th, 2020

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