<p class="title">An academician in Pakistan was arrested on Saturday after police raided his house for participating in an anti-state protest following the death of an ethnic Pashtun leader earlier this month, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ammar Ali Jan, associated with Lahore-situated Forman Christian college, was arrested from his residence and taken to the Gulberg police station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was later released on bail.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Police arrested lecturer Dr Ammar Ali Jan of Forman Christian (FC) College from his residence Saturday morning in connection with an FIR registered against him for taking part in a protest in Lahore’s Liberty Chowk this week in which anti-state slogans were chanted,” Muhammad Hammad, Lahore police spokesman, said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jan was part of the protest that was held against the death of Arman Loni from the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a social campaign for Pashtun human rights based in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Loni died on February 2 after baton charge by the police to disperse protesters of PTM while holding a peaceful protest against the terrorist attacks on security forces in Loralai in country's Balochistan province.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the FIR, Jan has been accused of leading a group of 100-150 people which was blocking the roads.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The gathering was blocking roads and Jan along with some others were chanting slogans against state institutions and intelligence agencies," the paper reported, quoting the FIR.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hammad said Jan remained in police custody for few hours as he was later in the day was granted bail by the local magistrate.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jan said that his house was raided prior to the arrest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There is an FIR against me for participating at the protest in Liberty against the killing of Professor Arman Loni. I was taken into custody at 4 am which is when "the police raided my house," he said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In April 2018, Jan was removed from the visiting faculty post at the Punjab University, for what the administration says, "failing to meet contract requirements", according to the report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was however alleged that Jan was sacked over his political views and activism.</p>
<p class="title">An academician in Pakistan was arrested on Saturday after police raided his house for participating in an anti-state protest following the death of an ethnic Pashtun leader earlier this month, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ammar Ali Jan, associated with Lahore-situated Forman Christian college, was arrested from his residence and taken to the Gulberg police station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was later released on bail.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Police arrested lecturer Dr Ammar Ali Jan of Forman Christian (FC) College from his residence Saturday morning in connection with an FIR registered against him for taking part in a protest in Lahore’s Liberty Chowk this week in which anti-state slogans were chanted,” Muhammad Hammad, Lahore police spokesman, said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jan was part of the protest that was held against the death of Arman Loni from the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a social campaign for Pashtun human rights based in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Loni died on February 2 after baton charge by the police to disperse protesters of PTM while holding a peaceful protest against the terrorist attacks on security forces in Loralai in country's Balochistan province.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the FIR, Jan has been accused of leading a group of 100-150 people which was blocking the roads.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The gathering was blocking roads and Jan along with some others were chanting slogans against state institutions and intelligence agencies," the paper reported, quoting the FIR.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hammad said Jan remained in police custody for few hours as he was later in the day was granted bail by the local magistrate.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jan said that his house was raided prior to the arrest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There is an FIR against me for participating at the protest in Liberty against the killing of Professor Arman Loni. I was taken into custody at 4 am which is when "the police raided my house," he said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In April 2018, Jan was removed from the visiting faculty post at the Punjab University, for what the administration says, "failing to meet contract requirements", according to the report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was however alleged that Jan was sacked over his political views and activism.</p>