Pashtun leader Manzoor Pashteen expressed anguish at Pakistani regime’s relentless targeted killing of Pashtun children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In a social media post the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader lamented that blood of Pashtuns has become so cheap that Pakistani forces drop bombs, mortar shells and fire at innocent Pashtun children and yet none of Paki institution even bothers to take note of it.
“Their (Pashtun children’s) blood was not valuable that the Pakistani media did not even bother to know about it. Pashtun’s blood was not worth debating for the Pakistani Parliament that’s why they remained silent about it. Even the courts that have time to decide the price of samosas remain silent at the sight of Pashtun’s blood,” said Manzoor Pashteen in his social media post.
A day before, the Pakistan Army’s quadcopter drone had dropped bombs on residential areas at Tapi Ghondikhel village in North Waziristan that seriously injured a Pashtun girl, Afia. As the Pakistani forces had blocked all roads and had imposed strict curfew the helpless parents could not take Afia to a hospital, and she died.
A week earlier a blast at the Lakki Marwat Surband in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had killed five Pashtun children and women and twelve were seriously injured. Yet another bomb blast at Wana in South Waziristan had killed innocent Pashtuns.
Bilal Orakzai, PTM’s Peshawar coordinator has been arrested by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police and his whereabouts remain unknown. Bilal Orakzai has neither been presented in any court nor his family is being allowed to meet him.
In fact, the entire Pashtunistan is grappling with bomb blasts and targeted killings by the Pakistani forces. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) estimates that over 75,500 Pashtuns have been killed in violent attacks by the Pakistani regime across Pashtunistan and around 7,600 Pashtuns have been forcefully abducted who remain “missing” till date. “Pakistan’s policy has always been happiness and celebration for Lahore and Islamabad, while blood, tears and massacres are for Pakhtuns (Pashtuns), Baloch and other oppressed nations,” said Manzoor Pashteen.