Pashtun Tahafuz Movement

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The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; Pashto: پښتون ژغورنې غورځنګ‎ Paṣhtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang; Urdu: پشتون تحفظ موومنٹ‎, lit. 'Pashtun Protection Movement') is a social movement for Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The movement was founded in May 2014 by eight students in Dera Ismail Khan.
During PTM's public demonstrations and sit-ins, several demands were presented to the Pakistani government and military, including punishment to the retired police officer Rao Anwar, a truth and reconciliation commission on extrajudicial killings in the country, presenting missing persons before courts, and removal of landmines from the Pashtun tribal areas. The movement is led by Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen, a human rights activist from South Waziristan. Other prominent activists in it include Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar. PTM claims to be an unarmed and peaceful resistance movement working within the lawful boundaries of the Constitution of Pakistan. However, the Pakistan Army and several journalists have claimed that the movement is trying to create discord in the country along ethnic lines, as well as following a foreign agenda. The movement has seen strong support from neighboring Afghanistan, which traditionally has an uneasy relationship with the government of Pakistan.

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