PTM activists hold demos as Pashteen shifted to D I Khan jail.

Peshawar -- Hundreds of Charged workers of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) protested in Peshawar and other parts of the province against the arrest of its Chief Manzoor Pashteen as the MNAs Mohsin Dawar and Ali Wazir , former senator and Human rights activist Afrasyab Khattak were taken into custody in Islamabad on Tuesday.

On the other hand the PTM Chief Manzoor Pashteen, accused of 'creating anti-state sentiments in the country' who was arrested in Peshawar's Shaheen Town on Monday and was sent to the city's central jail on a 14-day judicial remand, was on Tuesday shifted to Dera Ismail Khan on a local court's orders.

The leaders of PTM MNAs Mohsin Dawar, Ali Wazir and former Senator Afrasyab Khattak were also taken into custody from the country's capital where they were demonstrating against PTM chief Manzoor Pashteen's arrest outside Islamabad Press Club.

Police said a case was registered against the PTM chief at the City Police Station in DI Khan on January 18 under sections 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups), 120-B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 124 (sedition), and 123-A (condemning the creation of the country and advocating the abolishment of its sovereignty) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

According to the first information report Pashteen and other PTM leaders had attended a gathering on January 18 in DI Khan where the PTM chief had allegedly said that the 1973 Constitution violated basic human rights. The FIR added that Pashteen also made derogatory remarks about the state. Police had also arrested nine other PTM workers who were identified as Muhammad Salam, Abdul Hameed, Idrees, Bilal, Mohib, Sajjadul Hassan, Aimal, Farooq and Muhammad Salman.

In Peshawar, the PTM workers and supporters gathered outside the city's press club on Tuesday...