1/ On Mar-20, a 35-min call between Trump & Taliban deputy leader Mullah Baradar took place, Trump said:
"I know u (Taliban) are fighting for ur land".
Mike Pompeo had multiple calls with Baradar. This is not it, Afghan Taliban are hosted by Russia, China, Iran & Gulf countries.
3/ Pak has not only hosted the Taliban for an Afghan peace process but Abdullah Abdullah was also hosted, PM IK also visited Kabul & Zalmay also visits Pak at every available opportunity because Pak knows that peace of Afghan is imp for peace in Pakistan.
4/ It's ironic that Amrullah is talking about peace & terrorism when he himself has been accused by his own Speaker of the assembly for running a death squad known as "Zarghoon Bheer", involved in the killing of journalists & political figures.
5/ There is a phone call circulating, where Amrullah is instructing his cronies in the forces to shoot down anyone (the word used is beheading), if they don't adhere to the instructions & assuring them he would stand behind their actions.
6/ In an interview in 2017, he urged the US to bomb Pakistan, fast forward to 2019, PTM's Ali Wazir in a jalsa also pleaded the US to bomb Lahore and Rawalpindi.
7/ Meeting with Afghan refugees in Pak is something that any Afghan Political entity can do and the same was done by Mullah Bardar. Refugees want to go back to their country, honorably & ppl like Amrullah is projecting refugees as Taliban.
8/ It is also imp to note that it is Pakistan and its efforts that the Afghan Taliban are sitting at the table and Pakistan is playing its effective role for a political settlement and reduce the violence.
More importantly, Saleh forgot that HCNR is going to resume..
9/ ..the next round of Peace talks from Jan 5, 2021. Its the same platform where Talibs are negotiating with the peace committee and its the same platform which is been led by Abdullah Abdullah.
It is also pertinent to mention that delegation of the Afghan negotiating team..
10/ ..is going to visit Pak now.
Who will benefit the most if the Afghan peace process is sabotaged and why Amrullah Saleh is so fixated with Pakistan and trying his best to sabotage the overall peace process?
1/ Around the partition of the subcontinent, the British Indian Army comprised of some 30-36% Muslims, 8% Sikhs, while the rest were Hindus, including Gurkhas of Nepali background, and Indian Christians, and Anglo-Indians.
After the independence, the central government..
2/ ..in New Delhi was faced with a sensitive question: Will the Muslim armymen and future recruits with kin across the frontier in the enemy country become a fifth column?
Former Indian Army Chief Gen.K.M. Cariappa [1949-53] was suspicious of Muslims in Indian Army.
3/ In an offensive titled diatribe published in the Organiser, the mouthpiece of the Hindu extremist organization called the RSS, Cariappa bluntly declared:
"Muslim loyalty seems to be primarily to Pakistan. This is a crime unpardonable.."
1/ The scourge of sectarianism increased in the 80s but systematic killings of the Hazara community increased manifold during 2003-2013 (also coincided with WoT).
I'll list down major terrorist incidents targetting the Hazara community since 2003.
2/ On 8 June 2003, two LeJ gunmen on a motorcycle martyred 13 Shia Hazara police cadets & injured nine in Quetta after intercepting their van at a traffic circle.
A few weeks later, on 4 July, three LeJ terrorists stormed the Imambargah-i-Kalan in Quetta during Friday prayers..
3/ ..and opened fire for ten minutes on the more than 500 worshippers gathered with AK-47s and hand grenades. When assaulted by some worshippers, one of them exploded a suicide belt. Fifty-three Hazara Shias died and over sixty were injured.
It reflects poorly on progressives when they dismiss leaders like Taji Kokhar as representatives of "Qabza Mafia" or "extortionist."
He suffered the loss of his family, faced incarceration and threats, received threats from opponents, and eventually died due to state atrocities.
Taji Kokhar faced all these hardships not because he was merely a landgrabber (how many landgrabbers suffer that fate?) but because he chose to take a stand against military dictators, against religious extremists, and against patriarchal prejudice. His ability to endure the pain
and suffering meted out to him reflected the tragic fate of our entire people who are forced to confront the tyranny of a brutal state apparatus.
Taji Kokhar made mistakes, compromises, and had limitations. But those limitations were a result of a long and ardent fight against..
1/ Today is Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's 92nd birthday anniversary. Bhutto was a mercurial, mysterious man, a spellbinding orator, an astute & ruthless political intrigant.
He was a socialist-minded politician, a reckless adventurer, a man who founded a new strategic foreign policy..
2/ ..set up the nuclear program "We will eat grass but we will build a bomb" and who, being an admirer of Napoleon that he was, became more and more autocratic after becoming PM of Pak.
Today, despite his flaws and mistakes, Bhutto is widely projected by his party & supporters..
3/ ..as the most effective leader independent Pakistan ever produced, whose legacy lives on in the current 1973 constitution, nuclear capability, foreign policy pivot, relative independence of the provinces vis-a-vis the center in Islamabad.
1/ In a BBC program, Indian author Arundhati Roy commented that "..the Muslim community in India has been ghettoized..."
Let's take a look at her claim if it's true or not.
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2/ All across Gujarat, in all major cities and in several towns, Muslims are deliberately forced into ghettos through a law called the Gujarat Disturbed Areas Act.
The law requires citizens in particular parts of cities to seek permission from the government before..
3/ ..selling their property or changing their tenant and filters them by religion.
Gujarat's state govt extended the law across the state, to keep Muslims out of other neighborhoods than those traditionally Muslim. It criminalizes attempts to integrate, permanently..
لبرلز اور کچھ صحافیوں کا شکوہ ہے کہ پی ٹی آئی کے آفیشل اکاؤنٹس اور ترجمان (مثلآ مشوانی) جب ان کی خبروں کی تردید کرتے ہیں تو پارٹی کے سپوٹرز ان کو برا بھلا کہتے ہیں، جس سے ثابت ہوتا ہے کہ پارٹی کی پالیسی ہے صحافیوں کو گالیاں دلوانا۔
اس لاجک کے مطابق، ان لوگوں کی غلط خبروں سے..
..ان لبرلز اور صحافیوں کے سپوٹرز حکومت اور فوج کو گالیاں دیتے ہیں اس کی زمے داری کس پر آتی ہے؟
اس سے ثابت نہیں ہوتا کہ ان لوگوں کی پالیسی ہے پروپیگنڈا کرنا اور عوام میں اضطراب کی کیفیت پیدا کر کے ان کو فوج اور حکومت کے مخالف کرنے کی ذمے داری کس پر آتی ہے؟
اگست 2018 کے بعد ایسا کون سا مہینا گزرا ہے جس میں ان لوگوں نے حکومت کو اگلے ماہ گھر بھجوانے جیسی جھوٹی خبریں نا پھیلائی ہوں؟
بزدار آج گیا کل گیا جیسی خبریں نا چلائی ہوں؟
فوج خان سے تنگ آ گئی ہے اور اب ان ہاؤس یا نیشنل حکومت جیسی جھوٹی خبریں نا چلائی ہوں؟