Pashtuns blame Pakistan Army for supporting terrorists

Updated:8 years, 2 months ago

Lahore (Pakistan), Apr 24 (ANI): Showing anger and resistance against Pakistan army's brutality on innocent civilians! The Pashtun community in Pakistan continues to protest and seek justice for the atrocities committed by security forces in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas. In its recent stopover in Lahore city, the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a Pakistani ethnic rights group, drew a big crowd to a rally despite pressure from security officials to call off the event focusing on human rights violations. The leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), student activist Manzoor Pashteen, delivered an address to the thousand-strong crowd criticising the country's powerful military and its actions in the majority ethnic Pashtun Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The North and South Waziristan areas of FATA were the site of large military operations in 2009 and 2014 after the Pakistan Taliban took control of swathes of territory in the region. Waziristan is still affected by media restrictions, limiting the ability of journalists to travel there, and activists say that has contributed to portrayal of the Pashtun population as wedded to backward tribal customs and maintaining close ties to militant groups. In 2014, Pakistan army launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan after six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar city. The Pashtun have been targeted by the Army as many of them have been abducted and extra-judicially killed. Fazal Khan, an advocate, who lost his son in the Army Public School terror attack, blamed Pakistan army for supporting terror in the country. Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement emerged after the January killing by police of Pashtun youth Naqibullah Mehsud in Karachi sparked nationwide condemnation and demonstrations attracting several thousand people. The organisation has drawn the ire of the country's armed forces.

Top Videos

Updated:2 years, 5 months ago

Amid dry winter in Kashmir, snow-clad Bangus Valley in Kupwara district emerges as winter wonderland

Updated:2 years, 5 months ago

Grand welcome given to sculptor Arun Yogiraj at Bengaluru Airport

Updated:2 years, 5 months ago

Injured WB CM Mamata Banerjee meets West Bengal Governor CV Anand Bose

Updated:2 years, 5 months ago

Couple set goals! Husband to lead Sikh Regiment, wife to command ICG contingent in R-Day Parade

Updated:2 years, 5 months ago

Inside India’s and Air India’s first Airbus A350 with luxurious seats, new interiors

Updated:2 years, 5 months ago

J-K: Srinagar’s Ghanta Ghar comes alive with spectacular Tricolour lighting

Pashtuns blame Pakistan Army for supporting terrorists

Top Videos

Related Video

Security deployment, curfew expose governance crisis in PoGB

Watch! Latest visuals emerge as Middle-East situation worsen amid escalating Iran-Israel war

Kyoto hosts cooking test to certify foreign Japanese cuisine chefs

People of Nepal, leaders vote to elect new government after Gen-Z ptotest | Nepal General Elections

Nepal: Thousands of voters leave Kathmandu ahead of Polls

PoJK: Health workers protest in Muzaffarabad over ending allowance demands

UN Rights chief praises India’s civil society

Nepali Interim PM urges voters to participate ahead of Thursday’s silence period

Foreigners soak in Holi Festivities at Kathmandu Durbar Square

Rapper-turned-Mayor Balen Shah enters PM race, launches Kathmandu campaign

“India understand the danger of Nuclear armed...” Middle East expert on Iran-Israel, US war

Geneva: UN event flags blasphemy law abuse in Pakistan and Bangladesh

UN event flags blasphemy law abuse in Pakistan and Bangladesh

Deal or war? All eyes on Geneva as US-Iran delegations resume nuclear talks ‘

Nepal’s election campaign turns increasingly hybrid

“Pakistan PM would have died if”: Trump’s most explosive claim on India-Pak War during SOTU address

Must Watch! This expert shares key insights on India-Canada ties ahead of Mark Carney’s India visit

Details of NSA Ajit Doval’s visit to Canada emerge Indian envoy to Canada Dinesh Patnaik’s full intv

Nepali Muslims observe first Friday of Ramadan with mass prayers

Watch! India-U.S. deal, Russian oil, Quad & more… Ambassador Sergio Gor shares major updates