There has to be reconciliation & political settlement among all Afghans, among all ethnic & sectarian units that make the social fabric of AFG.
An Afghan who values lives his countrymen & peace of his country will ask for it. Don't ask for bloodshed, ask for political settlement.
Taliban, though victors on the battlefield, should form an all inclusive govt/council with representation of all Afghans factions and groups with the aim to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. Afghanistan can't be ruled by force for long.
Afghans, mostly diaspora, advocating for armed resistance to the Taliban know very well that it will be quite difficult, if not impossible, to throw out Taliban without foreign military support.

Why are you asking for yet another cycle of violence that will kill more Afghans?
If you are sincere to your country and care for your fellow countrymen then advocate for a reconciliation and political settlement.

Pls don't contribute to destruction of your own country & people for your careers in the West. You will find better ways to earn a name & career.

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Indo-Pak war of 1965, and the role of Afghanistan & Afghans!

When Indian Airforce was bombing Peshawar and Kohat, at the same time militants of Pashtunistan, backed by Afghan & Indian govt, were attacking Pak army in Waziristan - acc. to the state news media of AFG.

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Pashtunistan was a joint project of India & AFG with which both countries sought to achieve their own goals, and violence to materialize this project began right from the very early years of Pak independence.
Read here about the background & details.
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Pashtunistan's militancy continued even through 1960s. The Royal Afghan Embassy of London published details of the violence against Pak by their backed Pashtunistanis against Pak installations & military.

The papers records 20 incidents (of attacks, bomb blasts) in June, 1961.
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#OTD in September 1879, The Afghan troops mutinied and killed the British envoy Louis Cavagnari at Kabul. along with his 70-men escort, and their bodies were dumped in a mass grave.
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started for no good reason but only out of their colonial pride, ego and greed. There is no explanation till this date that what faults of the Afghans angered the British so much that it merited an invasion of their country, for a 2nd time in 40 years. Image
After their success against an unprepared Afghan army, the British signed a 'friendly' agreement that otherwise is quite notorious & disliked by the Afghans and is known as #TreatyOfGandamak.

The murder of the British envoy wounded the ego of the British.
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The 'senior' leaders of this new party had never won any elections in their whole political careers but have used the NGO-washing machine to cleanse themselves off of their crimes, and since then have milked one or the other political party to get senate or reserved seats.
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That attempt didn't work out for the reasons well known in Pak politics.
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Did you know?

The full veil and its Burka variant were worn by the elite or relatively rich women in olden times to protect their expensive clothes and face & makeup from dust & sand while travelling.

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the western side. The reason British chose to use mountainous region for Durand Line as a border between British-India & AFG bcz that terrain offered a better defense for India against any invasion. Frontier tribes were kept in perpetual war with the same objective.

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That's embarrassingly wrong and devoid of facts!

Hazaras are not only mentioned as an ethnic unit of the Afghan nation but very much referred to as Muslims & Momin in a historic document issued by none other than Amir Abdur Rahman himself, issued ca. 1886-1890.

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Yet another embarrassing take by a Twitter historian to attribute a poem written in 2002 to the great Khushal Khan Khattak who lived through 17th-18th centuries. @Pashz7 already pointed this out earlier.

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