Jamal Malyar Maseed ( ps, جمال مالیار ماسید; ur, جمال مالیار محسود) is a Pakistani politician and one of the leaders of the

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; ps, پښتون ژغورنې غورځنګ ''Paṣtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang''; ur, , lit=Pashtun Protection Movement) is a social movement for Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...

(PTM). Malyar belongs to the

Mahsud The Mahsud or Mehsood ( ps, محسود), also spelled Maseed ( ps, ماسيد), is a Karlani Pashtun tribe inhabiting mostly the South Waziristan Agency in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, now merged within Khyb ...

tribe of

South Waziristan South Waziristan District ( ps, سويلي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) was a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before splitting in to Lower South Waziristan District and Upper South Waziristan District and t ...

, Pakistan. He is a member of the

Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party The Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (; ), abbreviated as PMAP or PKMAP, is a political party in Pakistan's Balochistan province. It was founded by Mahmood Khan Achakzai, who was elected as the chairman, and Sher Ali Bacha, who served as the General ...

(PMAP).

Political career

In the

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 to elect the members of 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

, Jamal Malyar contested NA-49 (Tribal Area-X)

as a candidate from the

(PMAP), but lost to the

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA; Urdu: , "United Council of Action") is a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, religious, and far-right parties of Pakistan. Naeem Siddiqui (the founder of Tehreek e Islami) proposed suc ...

(MMA) candidate Maulana Jamal ud Din. In the

2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's constituencies belonging to areas previously known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on 20 July 2019. After the election, the new members joined the a ...

, Malyar contested PK-113 (South Waziristan-I) as an

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candidate. However, the administration of South Waziristan restricted him to his house because of which he could not run an election campaign.

Hafiz Assamuddin Hafiz Assamuddin is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from August 2019 to January 2023. Political career Assamuddin contested 2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election on 20 July 2019 f ...

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (Fazl) also Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) or simply as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Urdu: ; ; JUI-F) is a Deobandi Sunni political party in Pakistan. Established as the ''Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam'' in 1945, it is the result o ...

won the election. "The administration gave me no reason for imposing this sort of house arrest," Malyar said.

Detention in South Waziristan

In September 2017, Malyar and a couple of other human rights activists, namely

Manzoor Pashteen Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen (Pashto: منظور احمد پښتين, Urdu: منظور احمد پشتین) is a Pakistani Pashtun human rights activist from South Waziristan. He is the chairman of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). ("Pashtun Protection ...

and Shah Faisal Ghazi, were detained by the security forces of Pakistan at Barwand check post in

Tiarza Tehsil Tiarza Tehsil is a subdivision located in South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is 45,210 according to the 2017 census. Notable people * Jamal Malyar Maseed See also * Kaniguram * List of tehsils of Khyber Pa ...

, South Waziristan, because of their protest against landmines in

Dera Ismail Khan Dera Ismail Khan (; bal, , Urdu and skr, , ps, ډېره اسماعيل خان), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital of Dera Ismail Khan District, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 37th largest city of Pakistan ...

a few days earlier. However a day later, they were released by the military because of the social media campaign for them by their supporters.

References

Living people Pashtun people People from South Waziristan Pashtun Tahafuz Movement politicians Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party politicians 1992 births Pakistani prisoners and detainees {{Pakistan-politician-stub