Thread by @AbubakarTweets

So its been a few days and the soil has settled. Let us look at how fascist PTM got divided as Mohsin Dawar got fed up with Manzoor Pashteen.

PTM is still led by Manzoor Pashteen himself but many of its founding members along with Mohsin Dawar have left it and made their own party, "National Democratic Movement" whose chairman is Mohsin Dawar.

After collapse of Ghani regime in Afghanistan, the foreign support dwindled and political scenario for PTM changed so much that its leader Mohsin Dawar developed his own party on September 1. Manzoor Pashteen called it a betrayal of oath.

Manzoor Pashteen while talking to VOA Pashto said that Mohsin Dawar took benefit of PTM and his new movement has divided the Pashtuns and is harmful to them. Pashteen said that he does not believe in parliamentary politics and Dawar has gone against the same oath!

Mohsin Dawar who is more popular on social media than the PTM leader Pashteen, because Dawar is an MNA and gets more TV appearances therefore, started to see PTM's demise after Kabul's fall and worked up his own party to sustain politics in some manner.

He is joined in NDM by some PTM founding members as well as disgruntled ANP members who were sidelined by their own party. Afrasiab Khattak and Bushra Gohar.

Dawar's NDM has launched its own flag, a red and black flag similar to the one that was taken up earlier by PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen for Pakhtoonistan. Interestingly Dawar says he is technically still a PTM founding member because he hasn't quit the party.

Unlike PTM, Dawar's NDM has announced its party manifesto for elections because NDM is a parliamentary party. According to manifesto, NDM will contest elections for a Federal State of Pakistan albeit for secularism. This is contrary to the ideology of PTM.

PTM was based on prejudice against other ethnicities of Pakistan particularly the Punjab province and the Punjabi ethnicity. Its leaders continuously hurled racial remarks against people of Punjab and due to racist nature of PTM, its leaders were banned too including Dawar.

Apart from prejudice against Pakistan, PTM opposed Pakistan's counter insurgency operations in North Waziristan, calling it a "genocide of Pashtuns". It never allowed the state of Pakistan's flag in its rallies ever.

TTP head Noor Wali Mehsood supported this fascist movement #PTM in his video message and announced Support for Manzoor Pashteen as he called that the PTM leader was advocating for the right thing. This occurred during Pakistan Army's Operation against TTP insurgents.

Can PTM and NDM co-exist? Well they can but most likely they will not as both have different goals. NDM being a parliamentary party with aim to have offices all across Pakistan cannot afford fascist statements and slogans that PTM stands on. Both have different goals.

Who was more visionary in reaping political benefit, of course Mohsin Dawar who could see the end of PTM written on the wall after August 15 and so organized a different party in theory accepting the constitution of Pakistan, hence the state of Pakistan. It may get some votes.

Who remained more committed to the ideology of resisting and standing against the state? Yes its Pashteen who still does not want to accept parliamentary politics and will continue on his own despite the split. Albeit his PTM will be least effective vis a vis NDM of Dawar.

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