Detained PTM lawmaker brought to Karachi.

KARACHI -- The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement's Member of National Assembly, Ali Wazir, who was recently arrested in Peshawar over a host of charges including using provocative language against state institutions during a rally in Karachi, was brought to the metropolis on Friday night.

Police sources said that the MNA was brought to Karachi by air and police personnel took him into custody at the airport. He was later taken to an undisclosed location. He is likely to be produced before the court concerned.

Mr Wazir and several other PTM leaders were booked over charges of using defamatory, provocative and undesirable language against state institutions and army, police and Rangers at the PTM's rally held at Sohrab Goth on Dec 6.

The police registered an FIR against them on behalf of the state...

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