In November 2018, PTM launched a justice movement for Tahir Dawar, a police officer and Pashto poet who was abducted from the capital Islamabad and tortured to death, with his corpse found 18 days after disappearance in the Dur Baba District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.[7] PTM, as well as Tahir's family, demanded that Tahir's murder must be investigated through an international commission rather than a Pakistani one because the case involved two countries.[8][9] PTM again gained international press coverage in February 2019 when the Balochistan Police allegedly extrajudicially murdered one of the leaders of PTM, Arman Loni, in Loralai. Protests followed which led to the detention of more than 20 PTM activists, including Gulalai Ismail and Abdullah Nangyal.[10][11][12][13] PTM is led by Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen, a human rights activist from South Waziristan.[14][15] Other prominent leaders include Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar.[16] PTM claims to be an unarmed and peaceful resistance movement working within lawful boundaries of the Constitution of Pakistan.[11] However, the Pakistan Army and several journalists have claimed that the movement is trying to create discord in the country along ethnic lines, as well as following a foreign agenda.[18] The movement has seen strong support from Afghanistan, which traditionally have uneasy relationship with Pakistan.[19]