Seriously, it doesn't matter. Muslims in Kerala also carry Hindu surnames, it makes no difference, they think they are descended from arabs. Who wants them??
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Seriously, it doesn't matter. Muslims in Kerala also carry Hindu surnames, it makes no difference, they think they are descended from arabs. Who wants them??
How will Pashtuns bear the inhumane treatment, getting their kids forced to Jihad in Afghanistan for killing fellow brothers, getting their woman raped, elder abused? Army can always kick them out of their homes, make them refugee, loot the shops, harass them at checkpoints, pick up anyone who protests and kills.
And if all this is not enough a legitimate struggle, peaceful and reminding constitution of Pakistan to Pakistan army appears it is branded as a foriegn influence! Recent press conference by ISPR threatening violence and killings of Pashtuns for demanding accountability and return of missing persons is an example of another Bangladesh in making. When will these cowards understand that the only war they can win is with politicians when masses are deprived of human rights and very basic human dignity they will revolt.
First time I am hopeful that Pakistan may break again, thanks to their army, thanks a lot to DG ISPR, please go ahead and crack a few heads of Pashtuns as you promised. These idiots made a small movement of PTM so big and still doing same, they will end up paying a heavy cost.
The Pakistani Military’s Worst Nightmare Is Coming True
Daud Khattak April 30, 2019
Daud Khattak April 30, 2019
A human rights movement from Waziristan is finally bringing the country together to challenge the brass.
Activists of the Pashtun Protection Movement protest against the arrest of their activists and leaders in Karachi on Feb. 10.
For decades, Pakistan’s powerful military has been in control of the country’s politics whether directly, as during several decades of military dictatorships, or indirectly, as during attempts by civilian leaders to reassert their authority in the 1970s, 1990s, and after 2008.
Activists of the Pashtun Protection Movement protest against the arrest of their activists and leaders in Karachi on Feb. 10.
In their efforts to wrest control from the military, plenty of Pakistani politicians have been defeated and dismissed from office. So dire was their record that, at times, challenging the brass seemed like a fight not worth picking.
But all that may be changing at last.
Manzoor Pashteen, a 26-year-old man from an impoverished tribal background, is rapidly becoming a symbol of resistance in a place where dissent is usually silenced as anti-state, anti-Islam, or a result of nefarious foreign influence.
Pashteen’s Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), or Pashtun Protection Movement, came to prominence in early 2018 in Waziristan, a remote outpost along Pakistan’s rugged border with Afghanistan. Although the grievances PTM tapped into—discrimination against tribal people, violence by the Taliban, and military presence in the area—were long-standing, the trigger for the group’s recent explosion was the extrajudicial killing of an aspiring model and artist from Waziristan in the city of Karachi in January 2018.
Despite a media blackout—the major news channels have refrained from covering PTM gatherings or running interviews with its leadership, allegedly because of bullying and arrests by the intelligence agencies—Pashteen’s protest is gaining ground. In February 2018, the PTM staged a sit-in in Islamabad, which was followed by more protests against the military in all major Pakistani cities. In February this year, for example, hundreds of young men and women marched in Lahore, the country’s second-largest city, to demand freedom of expression, respect for the country’s constitution, and civil rights. The name of their rally—Shehri Tahafuz March, or Citizen Protection March—was an homage to PTM. And in April, tens of thousands of people demonstrated under the PTM banner in the North Waziristan city of Miran Shah.
At these rallies, a popular slogan is “Ye jo dehshat gardi hai, es ke peche wardi hai,” or “the uniform is behind all the terrorism.”
But can such marches really change anything?
Over the decades, the majority of civilians and politicians have shied away from raising questions about what they may privately acknowledge is the military’s encroachment on civilian politics. The same goes for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who won office in 2018, and is believed to be backed by the military establishment. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, called Khan the “selected prime minister” during an inaugural speech in the National Assembly. Since then, the word “selected” has been repeatedly used by opposition politicians to criticize the military establishment for backing Khan. They may have their own reasons for discrediting Khan, but other observers have noted his closeness to the military as well.
Thanks to social media and the momentum generated by PTM activists, however, more and more Pakistanis have started criticize the military’s involvement in politics, including by questioning the army’s corporate interests and its outsized budget and by censuring the institution directly online. Although the military can silence conventional media, it has few tools to restrict individual activity on social media. Even arrests and harassment of social media activists have so far failed to suppress dissent.
Social media has also helped PTM spread its message nationwide. Waziristan had previously existed in a virtual information black hole thanks to regular media blackouts during the days of anti-Taliban operations. But with social media, news can get in—and out. That a protest movement has spread from the area to other cities is a rarity for a district that often feels completely disconnected—physically and culturally—from other parts of the country.
It is also unusual that a movement originally created to support ethnic Pashtuns has found support across communal lines. In early February, for example, Ammar Ali Jan, a college teacher and PTM supporter, was picked up by law enforcement agencies from his house in Lahore in the middle of night on charges of supporting the PTM. In response, dozens of Punjab-based activists launched a social media campaign for his release. A few days after his release, Jan explained his ordeal in an op-ed. He clarified that he is not an ethnic Pashtun but has supported the PTM in its broader struggle against human rights violations.
Facing widespread protest, the Pakistani military has resorted to its old playbook and condemned the PTM and other emerging movements as “fifth-generation warfare”—that is, hybrid warfare against the state. Meanwhile, the military has also linked Pashteen and others to foreign governments and intelligence agencies. Addressing a news conference on April 29, Pakistani military spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor accused the PTM leadership of getting money from Indian and Afghan intelligence. “But tell us how much money did you get from the NDS [Afghan National Directorate of Security] to run your campaign?” he asked. “How much money did RAW [India’s Research and Analysis Wing] give you for the first dharna [sit-in] in Islamabad?”
In a bid to counter the PTM, state security agencies have swamped social media, Twitter in particular, with their own posts. Twitter accounts of ambiguous origins attack journalists and social media activists who criticize the military or the government. In turn, Facebook has removed more than 100 accounts, pages, and groups linked to the Pakistani military’s public relations arm.
So far, pressure has failed to silence dissent. Arrests, online harassment, and threats are now openly debated in social media forums, which encourages the brave to speak out. Questioning the military’s use of extremist proxies, relations with India, violence in Kashmir, defense and military expenditures, constitutional supremacy, and even alleged human rights abuses in Baluchistan province is no longer as taboo as it used to be. In fact, Pakistanis are now promoting hashtags to highlight such issues.
And that is the worst nightmare of Pakistan’s policymakers. Although Khan still enjoys support from many Pakistani civilians, his continued silence about the security agencies’ alleged human rights violations and harassment of peaceful demonstrators will likely dent his popularity in the longer run. He is already seen as the military’s man in Islamabad—and that position is getting less and less comfortable to occupy.
Source: Foreign Policy
Yes, it is 1971 all over the place - Pashtun, Balochistan, Sindh and the occupied Kashmir. Interesting times ahead
these Pakistanis must have a collective death wish to take on the Pashtoons. Hell, if Pashtoons were my country's citizens, i would cultivate them and induct them in large numbers in my armed forces, since they are traditionally very fierce warriors. but I guess the Punjabi superiority complex in the Pakistanis doesn't allow them to see beyond their noses.
One fifth of the Pakee Army are Pathans. Hard to imagine they'll fight for Pakistan and spill their own blood once Pakee atrocities push the situation to a point of no return, forcing the PTM to go violent.
India simply has to back up Afghanistan and let them handle things on the ground; I don't think there's any way Pakistan can retain the Pasthun/Tribal Areas once this becomes a real conflict.
Lot at this pig. He bought a 10 year old orphan girl for 2.5 lakh rupees and marries her
Two Pictures One Story: 1.#PakistanArmy (FC) soldier who tried to rape a #Pashtun girl. 2. #Pashtun girl who killed the #PakistanArmy (FC) soldier in Self-Defense Pashtuns have named this brave girl as “Malalai of Mohmand”
Two Pictures One Story: 1.
Pakistani Jihadi arrested in US for funding Jaish-e-Mohhamad
Man arrested at Charlotte airport for lying about contacts with terrorist organizations - CNN
Man arrested at Charlotte airport for lying about contacts with terrorist organizations - CNN
India ‘politicising’ FATF proceedings against Pakistan: Pak Foreign Office
Saturday, 04 May 2019 | PTI | Islamabad
India has been “politicising” the proceedings at the FATF against Pakistan, the Foreign Office claimed on Friday, a day after the Indian government said it seeks downgrading of Pakistan on the global watch dog’s terrorism financing list.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that India will ask the global money laundering and terror finance watchdog to put Pakistan on a blacklist of countries that fail to meet international standards in stopping financial crime.
“We want Pakistan downgraded on the FATF list,” Jaitley told reporters in New Delhi, adding that the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was due to meet in mid-May and India would make its request then.
“The statement re-confirms Pakistan’s longstanding concerns that this technical forum is being politicised by India against Pakistan,” Pakistan Foreign Office said.
India ‘politicising’ FATF proceedings against Pakistan: Pak Foreign Office
Saturday, 04 May 2019 | PTI | Islamabad
India has been “politicising” the proceedings at the FATF against Pakistan, the Foreign Office claimed on Friday, a day after the Indian government said it seeks downgrading of Pakistan on the global watch dog’s terrorism financing list.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that India will ask the global money laundering and terror finance watchdog to put Pakistan on a blacklist of countries that fail to meet international standards in stopping financial crime.
“We want Pakistan downgraded on the FATF list,” Jaitley told reporters in New Delhi, adding that the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was due to meet in mid-May and India would make its request then.
“The statement re-confirms Pakistan’s longstanding concerns that this technical forum is being politicised by India against Pakistan,” Pakistan Foreign Office said.
India ‘politicising’ FATF proceedings against Pakistan: Pak Foreign Office
This statment is being repeated again and again and China is supporting them in this statement, ground is being prepared for taking Pakistan out of grey list.
Man arrested at Charlotte airport for lying about contacts with terrorist organizations
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Updated 0705 GMT (1505 HKT) May 2, 2019
Waqar ul-Hassan was arrested at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Tuesday after returning to the United States from Pakistan.
(CNN)A man was arrested after arriving in North Carolina Tuesday for lying about his contacts with terrorist organizations.
Waqar ul-Hassan, 35, was returning from Pakistan and had gotten off a flight at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport Tuesday night when he was arrested on two counts of making false statements in 2015 interviews involving terrorism, according to an FBI criminal complaint.
It is unclear if Hassan has an attorney.
According to the complaint, the FBI began an investigation into Hassan in 2014 because the organization had information that he was communicating with people involved in terrorist organizations.
Hassan was interviewed by FBI agents and told them in some of those interviews that he did not support any terrorist or extremist group and did not know anyone who was a member of one, according to the complaint.
In later interviews, he confessed to having lied, the complaint says, and admitted to "extensive contacts" with a recruiter about jihad.
Hassan also admitted to traveling and staying with extremists for two or three days in 2014 and to giving up to $500 to and collecting food and money for a terror organization. The FBI complaint identified the group as Jaish-e-Mohammed, an organization the US considers a terrorist group.
After initial denials, Hassan signed a statement acknowledging he also attempted to send money to ISIS "ecause [he] was angry about what was happening to Muslims around the world," but said he ultimately did not because he didn't have a way to get it there, the federal complaint says.
It is unclear why he was not detained in 2015.
Hassan came to the United States from Pakistan in 1999 and is a naturalized US citizen who maintained his Pakistani citizenship. In 2016, he left for Pakistan and did not return to the US until Tuesday.
Man arrested at Charlotte airport for lying about contacts with terrorist organizations - CNN
Their top export really.
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Updated 0705 GMT (1505 HKT) May 2, 2019
Waqar ul-Hassan was arrested at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Tuesday after returning to the United States from Pakistan.
(CNN)A man was arrested after arriving in North Carolina Tuesday for lying about his contacts with terrorist organizations.
Waqar ul-Hassan, 35, was returning from Pakistan and had gotten off a flight at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport Tuesday night when he was arrested on two counts of making false statements in 2015 interviews involving terrorism, according to an FBI criminal complaint.
It is unclear if Hassan has an attorney.
According to the complaint, the FBI began an investigation into Hassan in 2014 because the organization had information that he was communicating with people involved in terrorist organizations.
Hassan was interviewed by FBI agents and told them in some of those interviews that he did not support any terrorist or extremist group and did not know anyone who was a member of one, according to the complaint.
In later interviews, he confessed to having lied, the complaint says, and admitted to "extensive contacts" with a recruiter about jihad.
Hassan also admitted to traveling and staying with extremists for two or three days in 2014 and to giving up to $500 to and collecting food and money for a terror organization. The FBI complaint identified the group as Jaish-e-Mohammed, an organization the US considers a terrorist group.
After initial denials, Hassan signed a statement acknowledging he also attempted to send money to ISIS "ecause [he] was angry about what was happening to Muslims around the world," but said he ultimately did not because he didn't have a way to get it there, the federal complaint says.
It is unclear why he was not detained in 2015.
Hassan came to the United States from Pakistan in 1999 and is a naturalized US citizen who maintained his Pakistani citizenship. In 2016, he left for Pakistan and did not return to the US until Tuesday.
Man arrested at Charlotte airport for lying about contacts with terrorist organizations - CNN
Their top export really.
Pak PM Imran Khan pays tribute to Tipu Sultan on his death anniversary - Times of India
Poor man Dimran. He desperately wanted to commemorate someone for being a freedom fighter. Since his nation's own founding fathers don't qualify and he won't be caught dead commemorating a Nehru or a Patel or anyone with similar surnames, he comes out & does this.
Poor man Dimran. He desperately wanted to commemorate someone for being a freedom fighter. Since his nation's own founding fathers don't qualify and he won't be caught dead commemorating a Nehru or a Patel or anyone with similar surnames, he comes out & does this.