Incarcerated Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) lawmaker Ali Wazir, who was admitted to Karachi’s Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Tuesday, has claimed that his life is in danger and demanded that he either be shifted back to Central Jail in Karachi or be taken to Islamabad to attend the ongoing budget session in the National Assembly (NA).
Wazir — who is facing sedition and hate speech charges in multiple cases and has been imprisoned at the Karachi Central Jail since Dec 31, 2020 claimed while addressing PTM workers outside the hospital late on Wednesday night that he had been attacked twice at the hospital. According to Wazir, he was first attacked on his first day at the hospital and later again on Wednesday night.
