‘protesting against: FCR’ FATA student leader arrested

Shaukat Aziz was rounded up of the Maintenance of Public Order after he chanted slogans against a tribal chief

SHABQADAR: The Peshawar district administration has arrested the Fata Student Organisation’s (FSO) central president for ‘protesting’ against the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR). Shaukat Aziz was rounded up under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order after he chanted slogans against a tribal chief who spoke in favour of the FCR during a grand Jirga called by the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions last week. “After his arrest, Aziz has been sent to the Central Jail, Peshawar,” said FSO female wing general-secretary Samreen Wazir. “We will hold a protest in Peshawar if he is not released by tomorrow.” She claimed that the FSO peacefully carried out their protest, saying: “It is our political right to chant slogans against the FCR, and the arrest defies the spirit of democracy.”

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2016.