QUETTA: Police have registered two separate cases in Qila Saifullah and Zhob against Manzoor Pashtain, chief of the newly formed organisation Pakhtun Tahafooz Movement (PTM), and former minister of Nawab Zehri`s cabinet Nawab Ayaz Khan Jogezai for anti-state speeches in public meetings to provoke their sentiments against the state.

Afterholdingmore thana week-long sit-in in Islamabad, the PTM leaders had moved into Balochistan`s Pakhtun areas, holding public rallies for what they believed to be atrocities against Pakhtuns in Pakistan.

The FIRs copies read that `Manzoor Pashtain, Nawab Ayaz Jogezai and other speakers have attempted to ignite people sentiments against the state including Pak Army and Law Enforcement Agencies`