The Pakistan Army on Wednesday bombed unarmed civilian Pashtun houses in the Khost and Nangarhar provinces in Afghanistan killing Pashtun children and seriously injuring several others. The governor’s offices in Afghanistan’s Khost and Nangarhar provinces condemned the drone strikes and subsequent Pashtun deaths, saying both these drone strikes were unprovoked attacks on civilians.
An official at the Nangarhar governor said that Pakistani drones attacked the house of Shahswar, a civilian Pashtun, in the 28 Wyala area of Shinwari district injuring three children and a woman. Pakistani drones also bombed the house of Pashtun civilian Haji Naeem Khan in the Sur Kakh area of Spera district in Khost killing three children and injuring several women and men.
The Pakistani regime has been killing Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line in the name of fighting terrorism. However, the real aim of GHQ Rawalpindi is to “control” Pashtuns through these strikes such that Field Marshal Asim Munir can continue to use Pashtuns as cannon fodder like his predecessors. Over the last seven decades Pak Army generals have exploited Pashtuns in the name of Islamic jihad while keeping them poor, uneducated and backward. Of late, Pashtuns have understood the dirty games of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and refuse to dance to their tunes. This has infuriated the Pakistani regime, and it has waged an undeclared war against Pashtuns.