After Mohsin Dawar was injured in a firing incident, National Democratic Movement leader Bushra Gohar says she has been trying to contact the North Waziristan district commissioner to “hold an urgent inquiry into the unlawful attack on peaceful protestors”.

“I also wanted to ask them to make arrangements for shifting Dawar and others critically injured to Peshawar,” she said in a post on X.

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