Pashtun are not terrorists

Pukhtoon are not Terrorists
As we all know that for the last several days, a violent and fierce fighting has apparently started between two sects of Muslims in Kurram Agency FATA where scores of people have reported either to be killed or maimed. The victims include mostly young men, students, aged people, women, children and cattle. Most people have left their houses and have taken shelter in nearby areas like Kohat and Peshawar. Some have migrated to Afghanistan across Durand Line, which artificially separates one nation (Pakhtoon) into two parts. It is reported that the local administration has played no role to stop the ongoing fighting and save the poor souls from the atrocities and barbarism of those cannibals who are supposed to eat the flesh and bones of the innocent Pakhtoons, having no value for humanity in their hearts. The government is no more than just a silent spectator, media persons are not allowed on the pretext that their lives could be faced with the danger. It is seen as there is no government to save the life and property of the citizens. Kurram Agency was considered to a safe haven , where the people were aware that some agencies were trying to get them entangled in fighting against one another for the last several years but could not succeed. At last the secrets hands did succeed and got what they were struggling to get. But still the shameful and prudent people of the concerned area of the opinion that the war has been imposed on them by some one who does not like to see their peace and obtain the nefarious and ulterior motives. On the other hands, an other hands an other area of Pakhtoons has been burning for the last few years where the political situations are very alarming, and a wise could guess that they have reached the point of no return. Now a new drama was staged by the Pakistani establishment, in the form of , LASHKAR,a pro-government out fit of the so-called local Taliban under a notorious mulla namely Nazir, who is said to be a leader of the Taliban in Waziristan. These pro-government Taliban are apparently chasing the so-called foreign terrorists, which means set a thief to catch a thief. In the ongoing fighting scores of the Pakhtoon elders were assassinated, and the assassins are still unknown, people do not understand as to what is going on, on their land and what are the purposes behind this farce? For Pakhtoon, whether they are foreign as well as local Taliban, both are dangerous and poisonous. Both are inhuman, anti- Pakhtoon, and anti Afghanistan. These are the people who cross over to Afghanistan, capture the foreigners as well as Pakhtoon/Afghans, laborers, poor drivers, Journalists NGOs workers etc. who are engaged to develop the infra-structure of the war-ravaged country, and then bargain on their heads with the government and the countries they belong to. A recent horrific and painful story of the Journalist Ajmal Naqashbandi turned the whole world trickling tears due to his sorrowful and tragic assassination by Taliban. May God bless his soul and rest him peace and give tolerance to his bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss, and to the government and people of Afghanistan. When the demands of Taliban are not answered, then the captives are beheaded with a ruthless manner to console their slept conscious that they have served the religion through their barbaric, inhuman, and wicked medieval attitude against the humanity, especially Pakhtoon/Afghans. The government of Pakistan seems not to take matter serious to eliminate terrorists and their nests where they are nurtured. These terrorists are the guests of Pakistani establishment who have been serving them in a better way to destroy Pakhtoon/Afghans and to capture their land and resources for which they have their bad intentions since long. Or either they have sensed gravity of the present situations like those of the then East Pakistan and now an independent and sovereign state with the name of Bangladesh, where more than 3 million people were slaughtered and o.5 million women raped, with the collaboration of the contractors of Islam, the infamous clergy. Bajor agency, an other area of ethnic Pakhtoons was bombarded purportedly by Pakistani security forces on the pretext that terrorists were getting training there. It is right to destroy the terrorists, but these rules should be applied everywhere in the country. In Islamabad terrorists are free to challenge the writ of the government and establish the courts like Taliban had set-up in Afghanistan before 2001.Musharraf very innocently announces that they do not want to show them iron hand, because these terrorists are their son, daughters and above all Pakistani. But if situations like these arise in areas of Pakhtoon and Baloch, and then they are targeted and bombarded ruthlessly, what a hypocritical approach these Pakistani rulers have for different citizens at different places? We think that a terrorist will be terrorist whether he or she be in Islamabad or FATA. Tirah an other area of the unlucky Pakhtoon of the Khyber Agency where the situations are also of the worst type. The establishment has put rift among the people and has divided them on religious sectarianism, an old tactic of the establishment through which it gets its aims in the area. The simple and straight-forwarded Pakhtoon tribles have been living in the area for centuries with religious harmony and tolerance. These poor lots have no concern with any Islamic out-fits. All groups are working on the name of Islam, which is not accepted to tribal and Pakhtoons. This drama is also staged by the administration to seek support for the own terrorists people. Because in such circumstances, the terrorists could find safe haven, from where they could easily keep continued their terrorist activities against Afghanistan. In settled areas of NWFP (Pukhtoon Khwa) the political situations are also alarming and are going from bad to worse and now even have reached its superlative degree of worst, schools are threatened to be closed, parents are threatened not to send girls daughters to school, as they think it an un-Islamic act. Barbers are forbidden to cut the hair and make-shaves. A new Mullah the son-in-law of the erstwhile Sufi-Muhammad the head of apparently defunct religious group of shariat Mohammadi, who is now a days taking rest in D.I.Khan jail due to the rage and anger of the people whom sons he had taken to Afghanistan in 2001, who were killed there and the Mullah returned safe and sound. This Mullah Ride on white horse and give tickets of paradise to those who get their daughters extricated of the school and sends them to his religious seminary. Govt is reluctant to arrest this man. Once the govt. sent police/ army to arrest him on the Friday, at prayer time, which it definitely could not, because on that day, a large number of the people gathered there. People would have to resist. These tactics mean to get him famous and make a seudo-hero of him among the people. All the people including UN, America, Western countries and political, civil and human rights organizations should understand it and do not take Pakhtoons for terrorists or Al-Quaida and Taliban. Pakhtoons are by birth a secular nation. It is evident from the fact, that when Pakistan came in to being, there was only Pukhtoon Khwa where a secular government of congress was operating under the chief Minister Dr. Khan Sahib. The present nature is an artificial one, which is prepared by the establishment of Pakistan with the connivance of co-called religious clergy.

Written by:
ZAR ALI KHAN MUSAZAI
Chairman Pakhtoon/Afghan Democratic Council
PESHAWAR, PAKHTOON KHWA