Pashtun Tahafuz Movement - PTM

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (Pashto: پښتون ژغورنې غورځنګ‎, Urdu: پشتون تحفظ تحریک‬‎; abbreviated PTM), or the Pashtun Protection Movement, formerly called the Mehsud Tahafuz Movement, is a social movement for Pashtun human rights, based in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan, Pakistan. The movement originally started in 2014 as an initiative for removing land mines from Waziristan, affected by the war in North-West Pakistan.

It later rose to prominence in January 2018 when it began a justice movement for Naqeebullah Mehsud, who was killed extrajudicially during a police encounter in Karachi that same month. The leader of the movement is Manzoor Pashteen, a human rights activist from South Waziristan.