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Peshawar High Court on Wednesday ordered the release of two ethnic Pashtun parliamentarians, months after they were arrested for allegedly inciting violent clashes with security forces. Both Mohsin Dawar and Ali Wazir have been virtually unheard of since being arrested in May. "Today, Justice Nasir Mehfooz from Peshawar High Court accepted the bail application and ordered the release of Mohsin Dawar and Ali Wazir," Tariq Afghan, one of the defence lawyers, told AFP.

Afghan said both MPs were set to be released after completing legal formalities and paying bail. Sangeen Khan, another defence lawyer familiar with the case, said the court accepted their bail application after finding contradictory reports in the investigation.

The two lawmakers have been held in custody for months over their alleged involvement in a violent clash at a rally near the Afghan border in Pakistan's restive tribal region in May that killed 14 people.

Both MPs had been charged with murder, attempted murder, attacking law enforcement personnel, disturbing law and order, and terrorism, according to the lawyers and a court official. The clashes followed months of rising tensions between the Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) - a group the two lawmakers helped found - and the government after it issued repeated warnings to end their criticism of the security forces.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019


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