Ali Wazir receives bail from ATC in the fourth sedition case.

Ali Wazir, the MNA and head of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), has received post-arrest release from Karachi’s Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) in connection with a fourth sedition charge brought against him, according to The News.

Since December 31, 2020, Wazir has been imprisoned for allegedly making incendiary comments that incited treason and hatred against the government. He and a few other party leaders were charged with the same offences in four cases that were filed under the same provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) at the police stations in Sohrab Goth, Shah Latif Town, and Boat Basin.

After hearing arguments from the defence and prosecution during the hearing on the lawmaker’s request for bail on Tuesday at the Karachi Central Jail, ATC-XII judge rendered a decision. In order to ensure his release, he instructed the petitioner to provide a security of Rs. 100,000.

Bail has previously been granted in the other three cases for the South Waziristan MNA. His attorney, Abdul Qadir Khan, claimed that because he had not yet provided sureties in each of the instances, a release order for his client could not be issued on Tuesday.

The current case concerns statements made by Wazir, MNA Mohsin Dawar, and others in opposition to government institutions at a gathering of the general public in a residence under the control of the Boat Basin police station in 2018.Cases have been filed against him under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997’s Section 7 (Punishment for Acts of Terrorism),

Section 147 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), Section 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of an offence committed in prosecution of a common object), Sections 500 (punishment for defamation), Section 505 (statement conducing to public mischief), and other sections of the PPC.