Be it Afghanistan or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan’s army is killing Pashtuns everywhere in the name of carrying out anti-terrorism operations. In the strike carried out on Afghanistan at midnight on Saturday, the Pakistani Army targeted a residential house in Besud district of Nangarhar province, in which 17 people including 11 children were killed. All these 17 were ordinary citizens of Afghanistan and were Pashtuns.
Apart from Afghanistan, in our own country, the Pakistani Army yesterday also fired a mortar on a vehicle in Tirah Valley of Orakzai district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in which 5 Pashtuns including 2 children were killed. After the incident, when people went to the Pakistani post and demonstrated, Pakistan’s Punjabi dominated army started indiscriminate firing on unarmed Pashtuns, in which about 8 common local Pashtuns were injured.
Pak army targeting Pashtuns in the name of terrorism
For the last one year, in the name of anti-terrorism campaign, Pakistan’s army has been attacking the houses, vehicles, marriage programs of Pashtuns living in their country, sometimes with drones and sometimes with mortars, and in these attacks, more than 168 common Pashtuns have lost their lives, which includes 39 children and 83 women. Also, in the name of anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan, Pakistan has killed 88 common Pashtuns from September 2025 to February 2026, which includes more than 29 children and more than 16 women.
94% Pashtun population in PAK-Afghan
94% of the world’s Pashtun population lives in Pakistan and Afghanistan. While more than 65% of the total population of Afghanistan is Pashtun, 15% of the total population of Pakistan is Pashtun, who live in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Also, these Pashtuns living in Pakistan and Afghanistan speak Pashto.
Pakistan did not even spare Frontier Gandhi
Since the partition in 1947, Pakistan has been dominated by leaders and military officers belonging to Punjab and Pashtuns have had to face atrocities at the hands of the Pakistani government. The biggest leader of the Pashtuns, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan alias Frontier Gandhi, had opposed the partition since the time of the freedom struggle and later demanded a separate country for the Pashtuns, due to which he was also sent to jail several times by the Pakistani government and after the partition, the oppression of the Pakistani army continued on the Pashtuns because the top leaders of Pakistan felt that the Pashtuns were a threat to the unity of Pakistan.
Pashtuns do not follow Durand Line, that is why Pakistan gets irritated
At present, the Pashtuns living in Pakistan and the Pashtuns of Afghanistan do not believe in the Durand Line as the Pakistan-Afghanistan border because according to them, the area from Herat to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has belonged only to the Pashtuns and in ancient times, their ancestors have been migrating from one place to another, sometimes for work and sometimes from one place to another during the winter season. Similarly, its biggest rival terrorist organization present in Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is also present in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and all its top commanders are Pashtuns, due to which the Pakistani Army feels that the Pashtuns living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa help the TTP and that is why Pakistan keeps targeting the general Pashtun population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with drone attacks and mortars.
Pashtuns got guns instead of pens and pencils
If seen from a historical perspective, Pakistan educated the Pashtun population living in its country and instead of taking them forward, it used them for Afghan Jihad in the first 80s, where instead of giving pens and pencils in the hands of Pashtuns, the army gave them weapons and sent them to fight Russia in Afghanistan by making them Mujahideen. Then after the end of Afghan Jihad, when these Pashtuns started coming back, then Pakistan started sending them to do Jihad in Kashmir, then in 2001, when the American army again reached Afghanistan and ousted Taliban from power, then on one hand, Pakistan got its Pashtun population armed to fight with Taliban against America and NATO and also carried out drone attacks on its own Pashtun population in Waziristan and Khyber to end terrorism from America. Get it done.
Army engaged in crushing Pashtuns for 30 years
Pakistan Army is not only oppressing the Pashtun population living in its country for the last 30 years and always uses them for terrorism, but Pakistan also considers the Pashtuns living in Afghanistan as its enemies. He feels that the Pashtuns of Afghanistan want to capture Pakistan. Since the Pashtuns of Afghanistan not only consider the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as their part but also consider Quetta of Balochistan as a part of Kandahar province. For this reason, Pakistan has always considered Afghanistan as its enemy country and when there was democratic rule in Afghanistan, Pakistan used to supply money and terrorists to Taliban to destabilize Afghanistan, who used to kill government targets and common Pashtuns in terrorist attacks.
Pakistan considers Pashtuns as enemies
Now when Taliban is in power in Afghanistan since 15 August 2021, which Pakistan had called its brother at that time and claimed that its own intelligence agency ISI had given power to Taliban in Afghanistan, now Pakistan is directly attacking the residential areas of Afghanistan and killing Pashtuns. Overall, for Pakistan, whether the Pashtuns are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, their lives have no value, whenever it wants, it uses Pashtuns for terrorism and then as per its wish, sometimes carries out air strikes on the houses, madrassas, shops of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and sometimes carries out drone attacks on the Pashtuns living in its own country.
