On Sunday, Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leaders Ali Wazir and Mohsen Dawar, who were "invited formally by President Ghani for the oath-taking ceremony," were "stopped from leaving for Kabul at the Islamabad airport," PTM members tweeted.

Later in the day, Mohsin Dawar tweeted: "We are going back as we were not allowed to fly to Kabul. FIA told us quite explicitly that the military has barred us from leaving the country. This is what elected Pashtun MNAs have to go through in Pakistan. This is the fate of an elected Pashtun representative in Pakistan."

He also tweeted:

"Sending best wishes to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on his reelection and thanks to all the Afghans who invited us and those who were waiting to welcome. Also thanks to the Afghan Ambassador in Pakistan, Mashal Atif, for his efforts to resolve this issue."

The PTM held a large, peaceful protest in January and demanded their ethnic and territorial rights from the Pakistani government, and called for a broader international movement. Pakistan responded with the arrests of PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen--who is now released on bail but still facing charges--as well as others.  

PTM is a Pashtun-rights group that has called for the de-mining of the former tribal areas and greater freedom of movement within tribal areas. It has called for an end to “extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and unlawful detentions,” according to reports.

According to PTM members, almost 30,000 people from the two provinces – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan – have gone missing over the past 10 years.