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While repression of the rights-based Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement<\/a>, or PTM, surges in Pakistan, members of the Pashtun diaspora in Europe and the United States are calling on international human rights organizations for justice. On July 1, hundreds of PTM supporters marched<\/a> on the headquarters of the United Nations Office, or UNO, in Geneva, Switzerland, to protest Pakistan’s abuse of PTM leaders and activists. While in Geneva on an earlier occasion, they also brought their demands to the headquarters of the United Nations Human Rights Council, or UNHRC. Since Pakistan is one of its members for the 2018-2020 term, the council is a significant pressure point for PTM to target in order to force Pakistan into compliance with its international obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The participants of what has come to be known as the Long March to Geneva included young Pashtun men and women, as well as the elderly, from countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and others across Europe. PTM Europe has a two-level engagement with institutions on the European continent: First, it is engaged with the European Union and secondly with international organizations such as the UNO and UNHRC. They urge the European Union to use its political, diplomatic and economic instruments to pressure Pakistan to end the persecution of Pashtuns. Engagement with the international human rights organizations is to name and shame Pakistan for violations of international human rights law. The goal of this mobilization is unmistakable: The protection of Pashtuns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan blames PTM<\/a> for anti-state \u201csubversive\u201d activities outside the country, such as the Long March to Geneva. It resents the group\u2019s internationalization of the problem that could be resolved at home, as goes the state\u2019s claim. The PTM, on the other hand, alleges that the state intends, by hook or by crook, to quell the movement. The PTM\u2019s engagement with the European and international organizations has increased since space for dissent has shrunk at home. In recent months, the state institutions, especially the army and its spy agencies, have threatened and arrested<\/a> key PTM leaders. University professors and civil society members who support PTM are being threatened. To borrow Scholars At Risk Board Chair Catharine Stimpson\u2019s<\/a> words, \u201cThey clamp mouthcuffs on academics, censor scholarship, and punish dissent.\u201d According to the 2018 Free to Think<\/em><\/a> Report of the SAR Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, university students have experienced prosecution and imprisonment<\/a> by authorities.  On October 23, 2017, the Islamabad police arrested 70 Quaid-e-Azam University students, “for their participation in an ongoing strike over university fees, facility improvements, corruption, and the expulsion of fellow students in connection with their expressive activities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state-controlled media has boycotted coverage of PTM\u2019s activities and interviews with the group\u2019s leaders. Whatever press the movement has got has worked to the detriment of its very legitimacy and survival. To make matters worse, on May 27th<\/sup>, 2019, the security forces opened fire on unarmed PTM protestors in the Khar Qamar area<\/a> of North Waziristan along the Afghan border in which 20 people were killed and scores were injured. Amnesty International in a report urged<\/a> Pakistan to investigate these killings. On May 23rd, 2019, The World Alliance for Citizen Participation<\/a> in a letter to the Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr. Shireen Mazari showed deep concerns regarding civic space violations against PTM, including the disruption of protests and arrest of protesters; unlawful killing; judicial harassment and threats against activists; restrictions on media coverage and international obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key demands of the Long March to Geneva included the fundamental points of PTM, such as the arrest of the fugitive police officer Rao Anwar<\/a>, who is accused of 444 extrajudicial murders; an investigation of enforced disappearances, elimination of checkpoints and removal of landmines in Waziristan. Added to this list were the investigation of the Khar Qamar massacre, the production orders of PTM leaders and elected parliamentarians Ali Wazir<\/a> and Mohsin Dawar<\/a> and the release of several other prominent activists. The participants demanded the establishment of an international inquiry commission under the UN\u2019s auspices to \u201cinvestigate the circumstances and name the culprits who ordered firing and those who executed this barbaric act, resulting in the killing and injuring of innocent Pashtuns.\u201d They condemned the “abduction and torture of Qayum Utmankhel<\/a>, a PTM leader and eye-witness of the killing of Arman Loni by a police officer Atta-ur-Rehman in Loralai, Balochistan. The Military Intelligence services of Pakistan are systematically harassing, abducting, and torturing those who have registered First Information Report against the said police officer, and pressuring them to abandon the case against him and cover the involvement of the state of  Pakistan in this heinous crime.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nprotestors also requested “the release of Alam\nZeb Mehsud<\/a>, a focal\nperson of the PTM for documenting enforced disappearances and highlighting the\nplight of victims of landmines in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Keeping in\nmind the dismal track-record of Pakistani law enforcement agencies,\nparticularly the Inter-Services Intelligence, which is involved in this arrest,\nwe are concerned about the physical and mental safety of Mr. Mehsud. We\nstrongly believe that Human rights defenders and civil society should be able\nto express their opinion freely and dissent without fear of\nreprisal.”  PTM also demands the\nestablishment of a truth and reconciliation commission under the auspices of\nthe United Nations to investigate the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes\nagainst humanity against Pashtun by Pakistan army and non-state actors such as\nthe Taliban.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other\ndemands of the long march included control over the land and resources of the\nPashtuns and international pressure against “Pakistan to stop supporting,\nfunding and promoting terrorist organizations on both sides of the imposed\nDurand Line, responsible for the abduction, torture and killing of Pashtun\ntribal elders and ordinary people.” Due to a prior engagement with the\ninternational human rights bodies, on June 4th 2019, the Office of High\nCommissioner for Human Rights on behalf of its Chief Ms. Michele Bachelet\nissued a letter to the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan stating its “deep\nconcern regarding recent threats and attacks against human rights defenders\nassociated with the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement and the violence in encounters\nbetween security services and members of the PTM that has resulted in a number\nof deaths and injuries”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nletter categorically stated, “We understand the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement\nis a nonviolent advocacy effort started by young Pashtuns following the\nextra-judicial killing of a young un-armed Pashtun man (Naqeebullah\nMehsud<\/a>) by police in\nKarachi in early 2018. These young men and women are asking for ending of\nmilitary checkpoints and the clearance of landmines in Pashtun areas, and they\nare calling for accountability for extra-judicial killings and enforced\ndisappearances committed in the past decades.” Furthermore, the letter\nstated, “We believe the demands of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement warrant\nattention. We trust your government will investigate the killings, detentions\nand other actions taken against members of this group.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a telephone interview, protest participant Aimal Khattak \u2014 a Pashtun rights activist and son of the great Pashtun poet and nationalist Ajmal Khattak \u2014 said that he hopes such activities will bring the European and international human rights protection machinery into action. He also said he hopes that the United Nations will take further notice of the Pashtun problem soon. The state also objects to the participation of Afghans in PTM gatherings abroad. There is no doubt that Afghans participate in large numbers in these protests, but all these activities take place under the banner of PTM, which is a peaceful and nonviolent movement for the rights of Pashtuns in Pakistan. The PTM leadership has said in very clear terms time and again that their struggle is within the bounds of Pakistan’s constitution. There is nothing subversive, whatsoever, about the challenge\u2019s demands and activities within and outside Pakistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some skeptics ask why PTM supporters raise the slogan “larawbar Yao Afghan” at protests. While it means”Afghans or Pashtuns in afar (Pakistan) and in the highland (Afghanistan) are one,” critics interpret it as a sign that PTM is a Pashtun ethnonationalist movement seeking a separate state for the Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan, popularly known as Greater Pashtunistan. There were undoubtedly moments in the history of the Pashtun political struggle when this was a goal, but it is no longer the case. At least, it is not among the goals of the PTM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\nPTM stresses that Pashtuns in Pakistan and Afghanistan are one by blood even if\nthey live in two separate and artificially created geographies. To Pashtuns on\nboth sides of the border, their ethnic affinity is invulnerable to any amount\nof ruthlessness and political machinations. Any harm to Pashtuns in Pakistan is\nconceived by Pashtuns in Afghanistan as a harm of their own and vice versa. The\nparticipation of Afghans in these protests is based on ethnic affiliation and\nsolidarity rather than nefarious designs that some in Pakistan attribute to the\nPTM. The empathy of the Afghans is also out of concern for human rights. There\nshould not be a problem with showing solidarity with a fellow human in\ndistress. This is precisely what the Afghans are doing with their sisters and\nbrothers in blood and humanity. Finally, the Long March to Geneva as a way of\nmobilizing internationally is a strategy that most social challenges under\nsevere repression in their home countries choose for survival. The European\nUnion and the United Nations should take notice of the PTM’s demands made in\nGeneva before it is too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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