Pakistani police on Wednesday released a Pashtun lawmaker, hours after he was arrested as he protested the detention of a prominent leader from the ethnic minority community.
Mohsin Dawar was arrested on Tuesday along with 15 supporters who protested in front of the National Press Club here against the arrest of Manzoor Pashteen, the chief of Pashtun Tahfuz Movement (PTM) - a movement for protection of ethnic Pashtun people in Pakistan.
Pashteen, the 27-year-old activist, was arrested along with nine supporters in Peshawar and sent to a jail on a 14-day judicial remand
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