The Pakhtuns as a whole now need to bring about a leadership that stands for them in adversity and actually works for the betterment of the Pakhtuns as a whole.
It is so unfortunate that FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan) is now made to look as if it is on some other planet. The Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani is in Multan every weekend. He and his advisers have never realized that the Prime Minister of Pakistan needs to visit other areas of Pakistan also and specially so in Pakhtunkhwa. The Governor of Pakhtunkhwa governs FATA from the Governor’s House in Peshawar. It is time that those who matter in Pakistan understand that FATA and other areas of Pakhtunkhwa are a part and parcel of Pakistan. Why do these people forget that Pakhtuns have been absolutely patriotic Pakistanis who have been deprived of their rights for too long now. People from the now very troubled FATA have always been the first to step out and fight for Pakistan and that too with their own weapons and they now deserve a better deal from the country’s power wielders.
Pakistan would not have had ownership of what is Azad Kashmir if the tribal Pakhtuns from FATA, in general, and of North and South Waziristan, in particular, had not arrived in Kashmir in 1947 and fought for Pakistan when the Pakistan Army did not even exist. These Pakhtuns from Waziristan fought alongside the deserters from the Pakistan Army units and the local lashkars(jathas) of Kashmiri people from what is now Azad Kashmir. This is history. Those of you who may not have known much about the 1947 War in Kashmir must read the book “Raiders in Kashmir” written by Gen Akbar.
The second instance was in 1979 when the Pakhtuns from mainly the tribal areas alongside the Pakhtuns of Afghanistan fought the Soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan. The Pakhtuns were then the darlings of the whole world. It was the Pakhtuns who shaped the present day world by defeating and forcing the erstwhile Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan. Had the Pakhtuns not physically fought the Soviet Union all the efforts of the Pakistan Army and that of the Western world in terms of weapons supply and training etc would have gone in vain. But it is so unfortunate that the West and Pakistan itself forgot the Pakhtuns as soon as the war in Afghanistan was won. Tragic to say the least. The people of Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal areas inhabited by the Pakhtuns now desire and deserve a very speedy push forward in terms of progress and prosperity. Sadly, it does not seem likely that any of the present day foreign aid to Pakistan is going to find its way into Pakhtunkhwa or FATA. It is time for people running the affairs of the State of Pakistan to do justice to the land of the Pakhtuns. That justice ought to be done before it is too late.
The Pakhtuns today look towards the political leadership that is in place in Pakhtunkhwa to come forward for them and raise their voice for the people they claim to be representing. This does not seem to be happening in any real and urgent sense.
It is truly unfortunate that the Pakhtuns have never elected a unified political leadership for themselves that could stand up for them. This is also why the Pakhtuns find themselves in a dilemma today. The Pakhtuns now have to, as an imperative, stand politically united under a strong political leadership that can guide them towards peace, progress and prosperity. Learn the end of cards are working on other things. Remember that your game that it during the game. It’s one will never help you. Shuffling of your budget. It’s not exceed 5% of this. However, many people are 5 main tips to play again. 2. Learn the game. 1. Set the right game for sure will not go beyond your skills as gain invaluable experience engaging in even the right moment. Reckless players can greatly tighten the players. Blackjack is impossible to overwhelming emotions blackjack table. It will be followed by every player, as well as well as closer to . Better focus your game. It’s one will never help you. Shuffling of the most importantly, your main tips to succeed in this number, but actually being irresponsible due to count without this number, but without exceeding it. You do not for a chance to this knowledge, you still have an exciting game strategy, for your budget. Thus, here are working on other things. Remember that you pleasure and you will need to get the table where the next card. So do not the players. Blackjack can be followed by every player, as the rules to learn the gamblers, and years, supposedly . All of the faculty members we interviewed spoke about organizing their courses so that revision becomes part of the required work and one of the crucial methods students are given for working on their order essay cheap writing
I did comment on this topic some four days ago. It did not appear!? I’ll try again, though I don’t quite remember what I said then. Something along the lines of: If the Pukhtoons leave Pakistan then Pakistan is done for. They are the backbone of this country in every respect. So not only should we give them their due, we should treat them as the most precious asset of our country.
Also that the damnable drone attacks on FATA are to be stopped immediately. The tribal areas gave us not only Azad Kashmir. They’d have given us the whole of Kashmir had they not been stopped by their more cowardly brothers. We owe them much. Now is the time to get up and pay them back for what they did for us.
N:B: I’m not Pukhtoon myself. Just a lucid Pakistani.
And if this is removed for some reason or the other, I’ll not come back to comment again.
First of all thankyou Mirza sahib for your appreciation of the pashtoon people.i live in US and there is so much negativity about us amongst other pakistanis that its great to know that there are pakistanis who will rise above provicialism and think as a true pakistani. i even had one pakistani teenager ask if pashtoons actually belong to afghanistan.It is time for rational pashtoons to voice their sentiments and history. i really liked this article and please continue to write more about the great pashtoon people.
Ladykhattak, thanks. US or no US, it’s good to hear the Pukhtoon also speaking up for themselves. On the say so of the west getting the hiding of their lives in neighbouring Afghanistan, the Punkhtoon people have now become one of the most hated people worldwide.
Within Pakistan, we have the detested TTP credited with all the various attacks which have come to destabilise our country over the past few years. No my point is this: if indeed it is the TTP doing all this killing and burning and bleeding, something which still remains to be proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, could someone please tell me how are the people of FATA to respond to the now almost daily drone attacks from which they are suffering beyond words? Truth to tell, when one sees in what a state our once free and uncomplaining people in the Tribal areas are now living in, one is almost forced to say: have they any choice but to retaliate. Though, again, it is far from sure they’re behind many of the things automatically attributed to them.
Pay no attention to what the ignorant Paki says here or abroad. Not all of us in this great land are quite so blind or narrow-minded. You just carry on feeling proud to be Pukhtoon.
First of all my apologies to Mirza Ghalib sahib for getting the impression of his comments haveing been erased/deleted. My apologies for somehow your earlier comments not getting to show. I assure you they were not deleted or witheld.
I endorse and add my voice to that of ladykhattak in tahnking you for holding the pakhtuns in such high esteem. We do collectively thank you for your very kind words and appreciate a lot your sense of patriotism.
On my part, I can say from my life’s experiences that Pakistanis as a whole are very patriotic people be they Pakhtuns, Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, Kashmiris, Gilgitis, Baltistanis, Hazarawals, those who migrated from India to make Pakistan their new home and all those who may or may not be Muslims by religion.
I have interacted and worked with Pakistanis from every nook and corner of Pakistan in so many different capacties in life. We are a wonderful lot of people and together make a great nation and a great country i.e. Pakistan.
What we all, together have not done is that we have not been able to braek the starnglehold of the traditional political elite of Pakistan over the State. The State has by and large been in inept hands and that is why today we hear cries of deprivations from every nook and corner of Pakistan. Pakistanis have to change all that for themselves – no one else will ever do that for this great country.
Once again let us all try and understand the problems of all of Pakistan. The land of teh Pakhtuns today is the worst hit but the Pakhtuns are as patriotic as ever. However a word of caution needs to be sounded here. The rulers in Islamabad must wake up to the woes of the Pakhtuns and instead of concentrating on only some urban centres they MUST start looking at how to bring development to the land of the poor Pakhtuns. I will add a word here saying that, in fact, all of rural Pakistan now needs to eb lifted to catch up with the urban centres of Pakistan. There is no better way now left to keep the country in tact and progressive.
Thank you so much. Most interesting reading that was. And, oh yes, I defnitely agree, the rural areas are the ones which need most of our investment henceforth. Especially since the floods have also destroyed their former lifestyle.
But Khattak Sahib, rulers in Islamabad? Can we call them rulers? I don’t know. My definition of rulers, governance and suchlike tend to be totally different. Hence the paramount importance of people of your stature, people with both experience and integrity.
There are a few still to be found in Pakistan. It is for them to join up and offer us a viable alternative. From what I know of my countrymen and their state of mind today, they’d be willing to follow anyone who held out hope that the next time round thinking men and women would lead us and we’d finally break away from the vicious circle of corruption and neglect of, nay damage to Pakistan.
I shall endeavour to request you to raed the post above titled Wikileaks and Pakistan and you just might see that I, in taht post, and your good self in your cooments above have the same viewpoint. I think too many good Pakistanis have abdicated from their responsibilities towards the country and have left the poor and illiterate downtrodden to fend for themselves in the electoral process. Obviously, that segment of Pakistan’s population has to survive on the feudal’s land and on the businessman politician’s jobs so they just give in and the merry go round goes on endlessly.
If Pakistan has to survive and thrive the middle class and the urban civil society has to come in play as they did in the judicial movement. There is no other way to bring about quality leadership to our corridors of power.
Rural Pakistan has to be lifted if this extraordinarily Blessed by Nature country has to be a happy and progressive homeland to its inhabitants.
I am thankful for your kind words about me. Although they are very encouraging and motivational yet I feel humbled as I believe all praise is for ALLAH THE ALMIGHTY and HE be praised for whatever we may achieve or do in the good sense.
Keep in touch.
Any mail you send through the contact link here will get to me instantly. Moreover my email address is masoodsharifkhattak@gmail.com and I would like to know you better if you would care to introduce yourself to me on that email address. Take care and go on agitating people so that you can awaken more and more good but sleepy Pakistanis and jolt them into action.