Pashtun Tribes Stage Unprecedented Protest in Pakistan

[Mentee]

quite an obvious name for a pashtoon
"Abulhaq "

 

[ARMalik]

Another stupid Propaganda of indian banana eaters, and A-stan aka US imposed lapdogs controlling 10% of kabul. ...Yawn.

 

[hussain0216]

Welcome to democracy

Peaceful protest should always be respected and responded to

Whilst certain ethnic clowns have tried to hijack this protest by enlarge it has remained peaceful and reasonable

A proactive government would hear out the demands, respond to reasonable demands and explain why unreasonable demands can't be met

The worst thing you can do is ignore a reasonable protest because you leave the protesters to option but to escalate

However to make completely clear
AFGHANS NEED TO BE HUNTED DOWN, ROOTED OUT AND THROW OUT OF THE COUNTRY!!
Listening to Pastun Pakistani citizens is important
But giving any sympathy or mercy to the namak haram trash from across the border is no longer tolerable

 

[AbulHaqGhaznavi]

Another stupid Propaganda of indian banana eaters, and A-stan aka US imposed lapdogs controlling 10% of kabul. ...Yawn.

I know there's a media blackout in Pakistan, not surprised, on peaceful protests, going on for couple of days. and this clown thinks it's a propaganda. Looks the like the media blackout did work

Welcome to democracy

Peaceful protest should always be respected and responded to

Whilst certain ethnic clowns have tried to hijack this protest by enlarge it has remained peaceful and reasonable

A proactive government would hear out the demands, respond to reasonable demands and explain why unreasonable demands can't be met

The worst thing you can do is ignore a reasonable protest because you leave the protesters to option but to escalate

However to make completely clear
AFGHANS NEED TO BE HUNTED DOWN, ROOTED OUT AND THROW OUT OF THE COUNTRY!!
Listening to Pastun Pakistani citizens is important
But giving any sympathy or mercy to the namak haram trash from across the border is no longer tolerable

Demands are simple:
allow them to return to Waziristan and pull out the Army
the arrest and punishment of Rao Anwar and his team that are responsible for killing Naqeebullah; putting an end to the incessant stereotyping and ethnic profiling of Pashtuns that gives way to extra-judicial killings; recovery of missing persons and presenting them before a court of law to hear the evidence against them, while releasing the innocent; and removing landmines from FATA.

 

[hussain0216]

I know there's a media blackout in Pakistan, not surprised, on peaceful protests, going on for couple of days. and this clown thinks it's a propaganda. Looks the like the media blackout did work

There is no media black out

The protest simply isn't that big,

We are a democracy we have regular protests by citizens for all sorts of things we cant bore the public by filling their tv screens with every protest that occursin a democracy

 

[AbulHaqGhaznavi]

There is no media black out

The protest simply isn't that big,

We are a democracy we have regular protests by citizens for all sorts of things we cant bore the public by filling their tv screens with every protest that occursin a democracy

EDITORIAL

Shameful media blackout

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Pakistan is perpetually on the verge of watershed moments — only to find itself sinking not swimming. The peaceful #PashtunLongMarch that started in Waziristan and has ended with the still ongoing sit-in promises to be one of the latter moments.

After all, it has all the makings of a revolution. Pashtun youth, tired of witnessing their community across the generations being persecuted by the state apparatus found themselves galvanised by Karachi police murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud — the 27-year-old shopkeeper from South Waziristan who harboured dreams of becoming a model — to say no more. Never again.

The FATA Youth Jirga was one of the organisers. And according to its representatives it had marched to the federal capital to decry, amongst other things, the picking up and ‘disappearing’ of Pashtuns at the hands of a bigoted state apparatus hiding beneath the false banner of fighting terrorism. Thus the group was there to demand due process. As of this week, the protesters were said to be at least 5,000-strong in numbers.

Yet were it not for the power of social media, Naqeebullah would likely have remained just another statistic passed off as dead Taliban. Indeed, this outreach also helped precipitate the political leadership into throwing its weight behind the demonstrators. Though we hope that this continues beyond the ballot-box. What is unacceptable, however, is that Pakistan’s fourth estate has conducted an almost blanket black-out of the gathering; particularly inexcusable given how the latter had set up tents right in front of the National Press Club.

For let us be clear, the primary function of the media is that of opposition. Not of complicity in promoting state propaganda. For, here, equivocation becomes mere matter of semantics. Thus it was the duty of media across the board to at the very least give airtime or printed space to the list of the protestors’ four demands: the arrest and punishment of Rao Anwar and his team that are responsible for killing Naqeebullah; putting an end to the incessant stereotyping and ethnic profiling of Pashtuns that gives way to extra-judicial killings; recovery of missing persons and presenting them before a court of law to hear the evidence against them, while releasing the innocent; and removing landmines from FATA.

But above and beyond all this, we, the country’s mainstream media — particularly electronic — ought to hang our heads in collective shame at the breach of trust and in the reneging on our own unwritten mandate to serve the national interest. For this blackout of a peaceful protest by civil society makes us no better than those who would try and have a reformed asset with untold blood on his hands that he will never be able to wash off give an interview to a local channel to ‘prove’ that his new leaf had well and truly been overturned. Moreover, society’s fourth pillar was happy to give coverage to the religious right agenda that saw the federal capital held hostage for almost a month towards the end of last year; while calling for the Law minister’s head on a stick.

Some sections of our industry have (rightly) cautioned against so-called trials by the media. But it seems that we have gone one step further. For what we are seeing today is the fourth estate setting the parameters of the very trial that it has decided to preside over as judge and jury. This hardly bodes well for a country that seeks to have the electorate legitimise certain militants. All in name of vengeful democracy. *

Published in Daily Times, February 8th 2018.

 

[Dalit]

I like most Pashtuns will always raise our voice, and just because they're killed there it makes it okay to kill them here.

Stop acting like you belong to us. We, the Pakistani Pashtun fully disown your kind.

 

[AbulHaqGhaznavi]

In Pakistan, Long-Suffering Pashtuns Find Their Voice
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Demonstrators in Islamabad, Pakistan, last week. The police shooting of Naqeebullah Mehsud, an aspiring model, was “the tipping point” for ethnic Pashtuns angry about years of mistreatment by the state and Army, a Pakistani newspaper editor said.CreditB.K. Bangash/Associated Press
By Mehreen Zahra-Malik

Feb. 6, 2018

New York Times.

 

[Enigma_]

lol the poster has gone into a full on fit.

 

[Dalit]

since last 70 years uncountable afghans killed in afghanistan and this guy need justice here in pakitan what a shaeless creature afghans are man .

last week b-52 carpet bombed afghan pushtun areas you maroon

LOL Afghan Pashtun are marginalized, bombed and raped by the US and Afghan minority inside Afghanistan. They have no stake in Afghan politics.

It is funny how this Afghan Pashtun is pretending to be one of us.

 

[AbulHaqGhaznavi]

Stop acting like you belong to us. We, the Pakistani Pashtun fully disown your kind.

da ghwa zo, wlar khpal haq di wakhla, dalta khpal Pashtun "disown" kway, da toor zoya

 

[Dalit]

da ghwa zo, wlar khpal haq di wakhla, dalta khpal Pashtun "disown" kway, da toor zoya

Shut up you twat. I'm not even going to reply to you in my language. I consider it as an insult. You fake Afghan Pashtun. We will deal with your kind with an iron fist. Your daddy America cannot save you.

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

they know it's a war.

their only demand is arrest of rao anwar.

 

[AbulHaqGhaznavi]

LOL Afghan Pashtun are marginalized, bombed and raped by the US and Afghan minority inside Afghanistan. The have no stake in Afghan politics.

It is funny how this Afghan Pashtun is pretending to be one of us.

you'd know right, because your media is so free and you obviously live in Afghanistan. Go check the cabinet of Afghanistan then you'll know who has stake in Politics. Compare that Pashtuns in Pakistan. Don't even kid yourself.

 

[Dalit]

In Pakistan, Long-Suffering Pashtuns Find Their Voice
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Demonstrators in Islamabad, Pakistan, last week. The police shooting of Naqeebullah Mehsud, an aspiring model, was “the tipping point” for ethnic Pashtuns angry about years of mistreatment by the state and Army, a Pakistani newspaper editor said.CreditB.K. Bangash/Associated Press
By Mehreen Zahra-Malik

Feb. 6, 2018

New York Times.

Fvck the NYT and these American sources you are posting. You think Pakistani Pashtun don't know who kills their children in the tribal areas by carrying out drone strikes? You think the Pakistani Pashtun can somehow be manipulated by American propaganda aimed against our army and the Pakistani state? LOL

You are mistaken. Pakistani Pashtun are the fiercest supporters of the Pak army and Pakistani state.

We don't need desperate Americans and fake Afghan Pashtun to beg and convince us. We know the truth. Pakistani Pashtun know the difference between those that shed crocodile tears and those that kill our children in broad daylight.

It is people like you who come here beg for asylum and carry out terror attacks in our land. It is your ally America which kills our innocent people during drone strikes.