I found a very heart touching article and I wonder why there is the genocide of Pashtuns both in Pakistan and Afghanistan?
"The history of Pakhtuns shows that they were never defeated by ordinary military means. They fought every invading and imperialist force and compelled them to realise that Pakhtuns were a power to reckon with. The imperialist and exploitative forces realised this fact and always resorted to the strategy of divide and rule. In order to execute their strategy the imperialist forces used various techniques to subjugate Pakhtuns e.g dividing them into separate political units, sowing the seeds of sectarianism in their land, bribing them wit lucrative and attractive titles. The same forces used Pakhtuns to fight their anti-imperialist enemy by exaggerating the natural capabilities, inborn courage and intrinsic bravery of Pakhtuns.
Due to the lack of education and political consciousness, Pakhtuns fell prey to these traps and could not rise as a nation. The repercussion of this division and disintegration soon showed its ugly face to Pakhtuns.They were divided into various vague political entities like NWFP, British Baluchistan, FATA and consequently lost connection with their homeland - Afghanistan.
While Afghans suffered due to the strategic and vital geopolitical situation of Afghanistan at the hands of its neighbours and also due to international conspiracies, the fellow brethren of Afghans in Pakistan faced identity crises in the nascent state and former Afghan colony as a result of political isolation.
The old enemies of Pakhtuns pretended themselves as Muslim brothers of Pakhtuns within the boundaries of Pakistan and started exploiting the resources of the Pakhtun Land. Serving their vested interest, the ex-clerks of the British Empire maintained the status quo and used the system in every respect to suck the blood of Pakhtuns and other oppressed nations in Pakistan to made them a backward and powerless nation.Pakhtuns ,on the contrary ,naively considered Pakistan to be their homeland and their ex enemies to be their Muslim brothers.
It was with the passage of time when Pakhtuns found out the bitter reality and realised their mistake but by that time they had lost Swat, Northern areas, FATA, some areas of Punjab and the Pakhtun areas of Baluchistan to the power elite of Pakistan. The worst thing which happened to them was that they forgot their history and considered the enemies of their ancestors as their heroes.
With Pakistan moving to its natural and inevitable disaster and catastrophic fate, the enemies of Pakhtuns realised that Pakhtuns should be eliminated from the canvas of Pakistan using religion as a tool. Consequently the exploiter class consisting of civil and military beaureocracy inculcated and engrained religion into the very roots of Pakhtuns and used their historic land not only to safeguard Pakistan for their vested interests but also demonised Pakhtuns to the international community and used the international community to justify their massacre every where.
Pakhtuns were used at the altar of Pakistan’s interests in Afghan war by General Chaudhry Zia ul Haq.Similarly in the early nineties Pakhtuns were used against their fellow Afghan brethren in the name of Talibans to take over the reign of Afghan govt and to topple the govt of Afghan nationalist Dr Najib as well as to kill Ahmed Shah Masood.Afghanistan was treated as the fifth province of Pakistan in the higher echelons of Pakistani power elite during the presidency of Ghulam Ishaq who even allocated a separate fund for the same purpose.
Pakhtun genocide was planned in Karachi during the Musharraf regime with the help of the terrorist organisation called MQM, who were backed by Musharraf during his regime. At the same time Pakhtuns were ruthlessly killed in FATA and various parts of Pakhunkhwa.The annihilation of Pakhtuns reached it climax due to the preplanned drama in Swat where an ISI backed puppet Mullah Fazlullah used to deliver his fanatic speeches to the people of Swat from an army station.
The militants and the military - two faces of the same coin are playing with the lives of innocent Pakhtuns across the imaginary Durand line. The Pakistani military kill them after labelling them as terrorist and train them as Taliban. They get aid from the US to equip itself against Pakhtuns and other oppressed nations in Pakistan and train them as Taliban against ISAF and NATO forces in Afghanistan and against Indian security forces in Kashmir using the state controlled biased media to project their activities to the world at the same time.
The political leadership of Pakhtuns should unveil the truth that Talibanisation is the technique of Pakistani forces to conquer the Pakhtun land with the help of fake religious authority and refrain Pakhtuns from their freedom struggle as well as use them against any foreign intervention which might turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Pakhtuns and other oppressed nations of Pakistan.
The political leadership should also tell the world about the anti human and hypocritical policy of Pakistani power elite viz civil and military beaureocracy against Pakhtuns according to which they project Pakhtuns as terrorist and at the same time train them as Taliban to play with the fate of the Pakhtun nation.
Taliban is the terrorist wing of ISI and other agencies of Pakistani power elite. The Pakistani power elite want to keep the reigns of power in their hands and want to snatch even the right to live from the people of Pakhtun land – a land which is destined to get freedom from the clutches of tyranny and injustice in the near future.
The west of Indus shall witness the rejuvenating music of flute which laments the separation of its organic part as a result of which it will soon be united to its motherland as encapsulated in his verse by the sage of Shiraz."