Pakistan arrests second Pashtun lawmaker over attack on army
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A Pakistani provincial spokesman says authorities have arrested the second lawmaker behind an alleged attack a military post earlier this week.
Shaukat Yousafzai, a spokesman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, says parliament member Mohsin Dawar was captured in a raid Thursday in North Waziristan.
Ethnic tensions with minority Pashtuns have recently flared up in the area.
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Dawar and another legislator, Ali Wazir, are accused of leading an attack Sunday by protesters that set off a shootout there. Three activists were killed and five troops were wounded. A soldier was killed in a similar disturbance at another post nearby.
Wazir was arrested but Dawar fled at the time.
The two lawmakers represent a Pashtun group which denounces what it says is the military's excessive use of force against local tribesmen.