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The five-foot-long half-buried Buddha statue, reportedly, 1,700 years old, was discovered while digging the foundation for a house in Pakistan’s Takht-i-Bahi area of Pashtun-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Mardan district.
 

Fazal ur Rehman Afridi, an activist of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, urged the international community to manage the Durand Line claiming that Pakistan-sponsored terrorists are misusing it for global terror

Pashtun rights activist and senior journalist from Waziristan in Pakistan and who is living in exile in Afghanistan Imtiaz Wazir said these were not "terrorists", but "freedom fighters"

Imtiaz Wazir, a senior journalist and PTM leader living in exile in Afghanistan told MyNation that they will not stop short of complete freedom from Pakistan for a secure future for their coming generations

The Pashtun community continues to push for freedom from Pakistan. After the huge success of first ‘Pashtun Long March’ organised to protest against the killing of Pashtun activist and professor Arman Luni, the community once again held another march, ‘Pashtun Long March 2’. 

Mujahirs have now joined the Pashtuns and Balochis in raising their voices to demand for self-determination and freedom from the terror-sponsoring country. A protest has been organised in Washington DC to appeal to world media against oppression in Pakistan.

The roots of terrorism can be traced back to the pernicious ideology behind the demand for a separate Pakistan in British India. Premised on the “two-nation” theory, the Pakistan movement harped on the irreconcilable differences between the Muslims and the Hindus. Following the dictums of radical Islam, the nation that came being on August 14, 1947, was an artificial construct with various elements in mutual disharmony with each-other.

 

 

Though the Pashtuns have been living in Pakistan since 1947, Pakistan's dominant Punjabi state apparatus has never accepted them wholeheartedly as genuine Pakistani citizens. Any legitimate Pashtun grievance regarding the government, Pakistan Army or institutions has always invited furious counter reaction from Punjabis and they are bluntly being labelled 'Afghanis' for raising their voice against state apparatus.

Thousands of Pashtuns took part in a march demanding justice for slain Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader, professor Mohammad Ibrahim Arman Loni. Pashtun activists dubbed the march as a referendum on the question of freedom from Pakistan.

The Pashtuns, a minority community leaving in Pakistan, has been raising their voice against forced disappearances and extra-judicial killings of their people and seek the intervention of NATO-led neutral government to end Pakistan's tyranny

The Pashtun leadership has called for a UN inquiry into the matter alleging that this was the latest misuse of the F-16 fighter jets, and that Pakistan has been consistently using them to harass the Pashtuns, who are not terrorists

Sources in Balochistan told MyNation that the Pakistani army had forcefully marshalled passenger buses plying from Karachi to Quetta and between Turbat — the second largest city of the province — and Karachi for transporting soldiers from Balochistan to the LoC