ISI crackdown on activists continues in Pakistan: Pakistan assassinates exiled Baloch journalist, Pakhtun national leader
Even during Ramzan, Pakistani agencies continue the killing spree of political dissidents, journalists and activists. In short intervals, the ISI has assassinated a prominent Pakhtun leader Arif Wazir and an exiled Baloch journalist Sajid Hussain. On the first Friday of the Ramzan, the ISI agents shot dead Pakhtun leader Arif Wazir near his house in Waza, the South Waziristan district of the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Pashtun leader had come out on bail barely a month ago. He was arrested allegedly for his anti-Pakistan speech in Afghanistan. The deceased leader's cousin, Muhammad Ali Wazir, in a statement said that the PTM leader, had received three bullet injuries to his body, The News International reported. The killing of Wazir highlights Pakistan's sustained intimidation, censorship, arrests and persecution of Pashtuns and the crushing of the PTM, a movement advocating for the rights of ethnic Pashtuns. Wazir’s father and six o