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NA speaker announces action against MNA Ali Wazir for anti-state statement

NA speaker announces action against MNA Ali Wazir for anti-state statement
March 3, 2020
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar on Tuesday announced action against MNA Ali Wazir for making an anti-state statement. He said that action would be taken against Ali Wazir after getting the complete detail of the statement. MNA Ali Wazir, in response to a question by a journalist in the parliament corridor, had uttered an anti-state statement. On September 21, 2019, MNAs Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar were released from Haripur jail after being granted bail by the Peshawar High Court. In its detailed order, the bench had stated that the conditional bail was granted only for a period of one month, and will be subject to the condition of ‘good behaviour’ by the MNAs and before the expiry of that period they will have to file fresh bail applications in the high court. Dawar and Wazir were initially charged in an FIR registered at the Bannu Counter Terro­rism Department (CTD) police station on May 26 after a clash between PTM members and Army personnel near the Kharqamar check post in North Waziristan, which had resulted in the deaths of 13 persons and injuries to several others. Separately, they were charged in the instant case registered on June 7 at the Bannu CTD police station after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a road in Doga Macha, North Waziristan, when an Army convoy was passing through the area. The blast had left four Army officials — a lieutenant colonel, a major, a captain and a lance havildar — martyred. A Bannu anti-terrorism court last month had granted bail to the PTM leaders in the second case pertaining to the blast in Doga Macha.