Thread by @tayyab_zarar

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"Punjabis are the Killer" of Afghans & Pashtuns" :Fact & Fiction.

On social media, PTM supporters and Afghans blame Punjabis for the current situation in Afghanistan & they call Pakistan "Punjabistan" to make such slogans and hate speech more effective.

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According to them, the root of all evils in Pakistan is General Zia-ul-Haq who was born in the city of Jalandhar in East Punjab (India). After the formation of Pakistan, his father Akbar Ali, a retired government employee, moved to Peshawar, Kpk.

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Zia-ul-Haq's right-hand man and the architect of the Afghan jihad, General Akhtar Abdul Rahman Khan was from the Yousafzai tribe born in the Pashtun family.

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General Akhtar's successor, General Hameed Gul, is known as the global leader of jihadists - General Gul's grandfather Faiz Khan was a Yousafzai Pakhtun from Swat.

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During the Zia era, the pioneers of civil-military bureaucracy and technocrats were (President) Ghulam Ishaq Khan from Bannu and Yousafzai Pashtun Malik Roidad Khan from Mardan.

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During Zia's tenure, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's chief martial law administrator was Governor-General Fazal Haq who hailed from the Pashtun family.

The then Home Minister was Aslam Khan Khattak who later became Pakistan's ambassador to Kabul. He was also a Pashtun

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The then Chief of Air Staff was Air Marshal Anwar Shamim of Hazara Ethnicity, under whose supervision the PAF shot down several MiGs in clashes with Afghan and Russian forces.

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After Anwar Shamim, PAF's air chef was Jamal Khan Bangash and after him, Hakeem Ullah Bangsh got the honor of becoming Air chief of PAF. Both of them were Pashtuns.

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At that time, General Imranullah Khan of Charsadda was the Adjutant General of Pakistan Army and Commander of 10 Corps.

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After General Zia's death in a plane crash, General Hamid Gul became the architect of an offensive defense strategy against India, with General Arif Bangash and General Alam Jan Mehsud taking command of "Zarb-e-Momin". They were also Pashtuns.

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Abdul Waheed Kakar, a junior and very professional general of the same period, later became Pakistan's army chief in the 1990s was Pashtun.

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At the same time, retired General Naseerullah Babar of Nowshera served as Pakistan's interior minister in the wake of the Afghan civil war. Fed up with Afghanistan's cross border terrorism, he later started training the Mujahadeen in return. They were both Pashtun.

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After the formation of Paki, the lar o bar brigade of Afghanistan, in pursuit of their dream, started supporting artificial uprisings in KPK & Balochistan with the help of India & Soviet Union. In response, the policy of supporting Islamists in Afghanistan was initiated

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not by General Zia or any "Punjabi general" but by Sindhi Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

Facilitators of the Afghan Mujahideen in Pakistan were national-level Pashtun leaders of religious parties, led by Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Samiul Haq, and Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

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After 9/11 it was Pashtun Sufi Muhamm from Swat who himself went to Afghanistan with his militia to support the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

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General Musharraf, who was from the Muhajir community, appointed Ehsanul Haq, a Pashtun from Mardan, as the head of the ISI to maintain the continuity of the policy of strategic depth in Afghanistan.

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And during this period, the in-charge of IB was Bashir Wali Mohmand, a retired tribal Pakhtun.

PPP's Charsadda's leader Aftab Sherpao, who is currently looking for a place among lar o bar brigade, had been in charge of interior Ministry during the Musharraf era.

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Therefore, it is imperative for those Pashtuns who are followers of the PTM, who have not learned any lessons from the corpse of Dr. Najib to stop their intellectual bankruptcy. Otherwise, the damage to the unity of Pashtuns & Pakistanis will be far greater than terrorism
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