{"id":50539,"date":"2019-06-26T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/iip\/?p=50539"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:23:43","slug":"pakistans-pashtuns-take-on-the-army-for-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/iip\/2019\/06\/pakistans-pashtuns-take-on-the-army-for-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Pashtuns take on the army for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"m1b3FBmpSgtkzhBiLxZ6QA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/958124088\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'m1b3FBmpSgtkzhBiLxZ6QA',sig:'oqPMWgjbukWzYuqaDs1PQZh-Uzv14stw6DLNyI-pCa4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'958124088',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February of 2018, a crowd of young university graduates from the Pashtun ethnic group staged a peaceful sit-in in Pakistan\u2019s capital, Islamabad. Its aim was to protest the alleged war crimes of the army during military operations targeting the Taliban in the Pashtun-populated northern areas of the country. Although Pashtuns have suffered the brunt of terrorist violence by the Taliban for over a decade \u2014 as well as the violence of counter-terrorism operations by the state \u2014 the immediate cause of the agitation this time was something more specific. It was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/24\/world\/asia\/pakistan-police-shooting-naqeebullah-mehsud.html\">unfounded terrorism charges and extrajudicial murder<\/a> of young businessman and aspiring model Naqeebullah Mehsud in January 2018 by Karachi police. Like hundreds of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns, Naqeebullah had been displaced to Karachi by violence in his hometown of Waziristan.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within a few days of his murder, a big crowd of Pashtuns, including students, intelligentsia, women, political leaders and the public thronged the site of the protest. The crowd chanted with one voice what has now become the motto of the movement: \u201c<em>Da sanga azadi da<\/em> (What kind of freedom is this)\u201d and \u201c<em>Ye jo dehshatgardi hai, iske peeche wardi hai<\/em> (The ones responsible for terrorism are the ones in uniform).\u201d The protest was also joined by non-Pashtun political and human rights activists and lawyers, such as the late Asma Jahangir. Solidarity, albeit short-lived, of this nature across ethnic divides had been a rarity in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, the sit-in in Islamabad came to be known as the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement or PTM. Under the leadership of a young tribesman,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-43827660\"> Manzoor Pashteen<\/a>, PTM has mobilized Pashtuns from the tribal areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KP, in the north to Balochistan, which is in the southwest of Pakistan. Pashteen has provided a platform to his people who are divided along tribal lineages and political ideologies. The movement has also mobilized Pashtuns across the border in Afghanistan and the Pashtun diaspora in Europe, the United States and Canada. Although much more work is needed, mobilization of this scale has been unprecedented in the history of Pashtun struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PTM has four fundamental demands: The arrest of police officer Rao Anwar, who is responsible for the killing of Naqebullah and over 400 other extrajudicial murders; clearance of landmines in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA; producing Pashtun missing persons before court for fair trials; and, finally, the removal of check posts where soldiers have harassed local Pashtun men and women. Most importantly, PTM demands the United Nations to inquire into the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the army against innocent Pashtuns by establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The movement deems the involvement of the United Nations necessary because Pashtuns have lost trust in the national institutions of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such a characterization of institutions like the judiciary, the prime minister&#8217;s office and national parliament is accurate because none of them seem free or able to take on the country\u2019s mighty army, which is leaving no stone unturned to quell PTM. The response of the state, which is basically the army, has been one of repression and intransigence. In a speech in April 2018, army Chief Gen. Bajwa called PTM \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1401345\">engineered protests<\/a>,\u201d which, he said, won\u2019t be allowed to succeed. Although he did not name PTM, it is clear that the General made the remark in reference to the rights-based movement. Recently, Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, who oversees the army&#8217;s media wing, threatened PTM leaders by saying, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1479183\">Their time is up.<\/a>\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1479321\">branded<\/a> PTM leaders as the agents of the Indian foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing and the Afghan intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security. Moreover, the state\u2019s controlled media has completely blacked out the organic civil rights resistance and has attempted to slander it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The army and spy agencies have harassed, tortured and even killed PTM activists. On May 28, during an attempt to provoke PTM on violence in the Boyya area of North Waziristan, the soldiers opened fire on unarmed PTM protestors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaa.tv\/news\/2019\/05\/13-people-killed-in-north-waziristan-check-post-incident-residents\/\">leaving 13 dead<\/a> and many injured. The security forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaa.tv\/news\/2019\/05\/mna-ali-wazir-arrested-3-killed-in-north-waziristan-reports\/\">arrested<\/a> PTM leader and member of parliament Ali Wazir, along with eight others, on charges of terrorism. Parliamentarian and PTM leader Mohsin Dawar also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/05\/pakistani-legislator-dawar-surrenders-authorities-190530133447185.html\"> surrendered<\/a> himself to the authorities. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><a id=\"ltjN1YwDRupuR7cl-TnQqw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1097065700\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ltjN1YwDRupuR7cl-TnQqw',sig:'ZkW6hjXqkGbdT63-9cCK8pRecxZudzBmYvUfUwE7pcY=',w:'594px',h:'387px',items:'1097065700',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, in February, the police killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1462147\">Arman Loni<\/a>, a professor and leader of PTM in Loralai, Balochistan. The security agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/nayadaur.tv\/2019\/02\/ptm-leaders-mohsin-dawar-ali-wazir-temporarily-banned-from-entering-balochistan\/\">banned the entry<\/a> of PTM Chairman Manzoor Pashteen and other leaders in Balochistan for attending the funeral of Loni, claiming that their presence would disturb the peace and order of the region. Since funerals, as the civil resistance literature shows, are a potent source of mass mobilization, it is no surprise why the state\u2019s security apparatus blocked the leaders from entering into the province. However, the fearless PTM leaders refused to be intimidated by threats and attended the funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the state\u2019s repressiveness, PTM continues to mushroom in size and spirit. In Pakistan, due to fear of the army, assembling a movement of PTM&#8217;s scale was like crossing a bridge on a slender hair. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/03\/manzoor-pashteen-voice-pashtuns-pakistan-180314091327342.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a>, the young leader Pashteen said, \u201cMy father, wife and mother expect every day to hear the news of my death or disappearance.\u201d But it seems like PTM has broken the cold spiral of fear. As a recent Chilean protest sign read, \u201cThey took away so much that they also took away our fear.\u201d PTM leaders have repeatedly said that they cannot be coerced into submission because they have nothing to lose anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/04\/what-does-the-pashtun-tahafuz-movement-want\/\">Ali Wazir has lost<\/a> over a dozen members of his family to violence by the Taliban and has his businesses destroyed for standing up to the militants. All this happened under the state&#8217;s nose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of 9\/11, the people of Pakistan, particularly, the Pashtuns have suffered the most. It is public knowledge that close to 72,000 Pakistanis have lost their lives to terrorist violence. However, what is not yet known publicly is that the Pashtuns have suffered the brunt of the war. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1045140\/making-sense-of-the-cpec-controversy-iii\/\">South Asia Terrorism Portal<\/a>, 42,094 deaths resulting from terrorist violence in Pakistan \u2014 out of 58,855 total from 2005 to 2016 \u2014 were in FATA and KP. Sindh followed with 7,732 casualties, along with 6,010 in Balochistan and 1,972 in Punjab. In proportional terms, 82 percent of fatalities took place in FATA, KP and Balochistan, which are predominantly Pashtun-populated regions. Moreover, the violence of the Taliban and army has destroyed bazars and homes and has displaced about 6 million Pashtuns multiple times in a single decade.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is against this backdrop that PTM emerged. The protection of Pashtuns against the perpetual cycle of war has become the rallying cry of the movement. Although the army has attempted to rouse PTM into violence in order to eliminate it by full use of force, the movement\u2019s leaders have repeatedly said that Pashtuns are tired of war and have no wish to engage in a conflict. Inspired by the nonviolence philosophy of the late Pashtun leader Ghaffar Khan, the leadership has made a commitment to a peaceful political struggle against state repression. Pasthteen has said time and again that the Pashtun struggle will continue nonviolently until the last man of PTM is alive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protection of Pashtuns against the perpetual cycle of war has become the rallying cry of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":50541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,59,60],"tags":[69,75,83],"region":[6],"series":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-50539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","category-migration","category-militarism","tag-pakistan","tag-protests","tag-sit-ins","region-asia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan\u2019s Pashtuns take on the army for war crimes - 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