Pakistan bans Pashtun group as government cracks down on dissent
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6R9D6)
Protests have been broken up with violence and opposition politicians from Imran Khan's party arrested
Pakistani authorities have unleashed a draconian crackdown on dissent, breaking up opposition protests with violence and mass arrests and banning a movement to promote the rights of the ethnic Pashtun community under terrorism laws.
Hundreds of riot police fired teargas and charged with batons as supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of the incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan, gathered to protest over the weekend in the cities of Islamabad and Lahore.
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