; abbreviated PTM), or the Pashtun Protection Movement, formerly called the Mahsud Tahafuz Movement, is a social movement for Pashtun human rights, based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, Pakistan. It originally started in May 2014 as the "Mahsud Tahafuz Movement" as an initiative for removing landmines from Waziristan (especially Mahsud land) and other parts of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, affected by the war in North-West Pakistan. - Source: Wikipedia