In a harrowing event, Anwar Shah Bora, a grieving father from Mohmand Tehsil in the Ambar district (Khyber-Pakthunkhwa), recounted the brutal attack on his home by a drone. Speaking at the funeral prayer of his baby was martyred in the devastating incident.
Bora revealed that the mortar fire, which rained down on his village, was deliberately aimed at the civilian population, not at any alleged militants or Army personnel. The consistent targets are children, civilians and livestock in these attacks. These strikes, which have become a disturbing pattern in the region, are not aimed at combatants but at the innocent civilians who have already been suffering under the weight of decades of Punjabi Pak Army’s oppression.
In November alone, Punjabi Pak Army’s shelling and mortar fire has claimed the lives of over 10 innocent Pashtun children. These children, the most vulnerable among the population, are repeatedly targeted in these brutal assaults.
The targeted attacks on civilian areas in Pashtun-majority regions like Mohmand are to maintain control over the region through violence and intimidation. The Pashtun population, long subjected to military operations, enforced disappearances, and human rights abuses, finds itself under siege once again as these assaults continue to devastate communities and claim innocent lives.
For the Pashtuns, these attacks are not just acts of war—they are an ongoing struggle for survival in a region where they are treated as collateral damage in a larger geopolitical game.