Be it Afghanistan or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan’s army is killing Pashtuns everywhere in the name of carrying out anti-terrorism operations. In the strike carried out on Afghanistan at midnight on Saturday, the Pakistani Army targeted a residential house in Besud district of Nangarhar province, in which 17 people including 11 children were killed. All these 17 were ordinary citizens of Afghanistan and were Pashtuns.

Apart from Afghanistan, in our own country, the Pakistani Army yesterday also fired a mortar on a vehicle in Tirah Valley of Orakzai district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in which 5 Pashtuns including 2 children were killed. After the incident, when people went to the Pakistani post and demonstrated, Pakistan’s Punjabi dominated army started indiscriminate firing on unarmed Pashtuns, in which about 8 common local Pashtuns were injured.

Pak army targeting Pashtuns in the name of terrorism

For the last one year, in the name of anti-terrorism campaign, Pakistan’s army has been attacking the houses, vehicles, marriage programs of Pashtuns living in their country, sometimes with drones and sometimes with mortars, and in these attacks, more than 168 common Pashtuns have lost their lives, which includes 39 children and 83 women. Also, in the name of anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan, Pakistan has killed 88 common Pashtuns from September 2025 to February 2026, which includes more than 29 children and more than 16 women.

94% Pashtun population in PAK-Afghan

94% of the world’s Pashtun population lives in Pakistan and Afghanistan. While more than 65% of the total population of Afghanistan is Pashtun, 15% of the total population of Pakistan is Pashtun, who live in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Also, these Pashtuns living in Pakistan and Afghanistan speak Pashto.

Pakistan did not even spare Frontier Gandhi

Since the partition in 1947, Pakistan has been dominated by leaders and military officers belonging to Punjab and Pashtuns have had to face atrocities at the hands of the Pakistani government. The biggest leader of the Pashtuns, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan alias Frontier Gandhi, had opposed the partition since the time of the freedom struggle and later demanded a separate country for the Pashtuns, due to which he was also sent to jail several times by the Pakistani government and after the partition, the oppression of the Pakistani army continued on the Pashtuns because the top leaders of Pakistan felt that the Pashtuns were a threat to the unity of Pakistan.

Pashtuns do not follow Durand Line, that is why Pakistan gets irritated

At present, the Pashtuns living in Pakistan and the Pashtuns of Afghanistan do not believe in the Durand Line as the Pakistan-Afghanistan border because according to them, the area from Herat to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has belonged only to the Pashtuns and in ancient times, their ancestors have been migrating from one place to another, sometimes for work and sometimes from one place to another during the winter season. Similarly, its biggest rival terrorist organization present in Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is also present in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and all its top commanders are Pashtuns, due to which the Pakistani Army feels that the Pashtuns living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa help the TTP and that is why Pakistan keeps targeting the general Pashtun population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with drone attacks and mortars.

Pashtuns got guns instead of pens and pencils

If seen from a historical perspective, Pakistan educated the Pashtun population living in its country and instead of taking them forward, it used them for Afghan Jihad in the first 80s, where instead of giving pens and pencils in the hands of Pashtuns, the army gave them weapons and sent them to fight Russia in Afghanistan by making them Mujahideen. Then after the end of Afghan Jihad, when these Pashtuns started coming back, then Pakistan started sending them to do Jihad in Kashmir, then in 2001, when the American army again reached Afghanistan and ousted Taliban from power, then on one hand, Pakistan got its Pashtun population armed to fight with Taliban against America and NATO and also carried out drone attacks on its own Pashtun population in Waziristan and Khyber to end terrorism from America. Get it done.

Army engaged in crushing Pashtuns for 30 years

Pakistan Army is not only oppressing the Pashtun population living in its country for the last 30 years and always uses them for terrorism, but Pakistan also considers the Pashtuns living in Afghanistan as its enemies. He feels that the Pashtuns of Afghanistan want to capture Pakistan. Since the Pashtuns of Afghanistan not only consider the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as their part but also consider Quetta of Balochistan as a part of Kandahar province. For this reason, Pakistan has always considered Afghanistan as its enemy country and when there was democratic rule in Afghanistan, Pakistan used to supply money and terrorists to Taliban to destabilize Afghanistan, who used to kill government targets and common Pashtuns in terrorist attacks.

Pakistan considers Pashtuns as enemies

Now when Taliban is in power in Afghanistan since 15 August 2021, which Pakistan had called its brother at that time and claimed that its own intelligence agency ISI had given power to Taliban in Afghanistan, now Pakistan is directly attacking the residential areas of Afghanistan and killing Pashtuns. Overall, for Pakistan, whether the Pashtuns are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, their lives have no value, whenever it wants, it uses Pashtuns for terrorism and then as per its wish, sometimes carries out air strikes on the houses, madrassas, shops of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and sometimes carries out drone attacks on the Pashtuns living in its own country.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has carried out large-scale air strikes on several Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria. This action was taken under Operation Hawkeye Strike, the objective of which was to completely destroy the terrorist network operating in the area.

Sharing information on social media platform X, CENTCOM said that the attack was carried out at around 12:30 pm American time. In these attacks, ISIS positions present in different areas of Syria were targeted.

Strong message against terrorism

According to CENTCOM, this operation is part of America’s continuing commitment against terrorism. The purpose of this action is to prevent terrorist attacks on American soldiers and allied forces, eliminate future threats, and ensure security in the region. CENTCOM said bluntly, ‘Anyone who tries to harm our soldiers will be found and eliminated in any corner of the world.’

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— US Central Command (@CENTCOM) January 10, 2026

Campaign started in response to Palmyra attack

Operation Hawkeye Strike was started on 19 December 2025 on the instructions of US President Donald Trump. This decision was taken after the ISIS attack in Palmyra, Syria on December 13, 2025, in which two American soldiers and one American citizen were killed. The soldiers killed were identified as Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, and Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of the Iowa National Guard. Both of these soldiers were part of the US military team which was deployed in the Middle East earlier this year.

Use of more than 90 precision weapons

According to CNN report, more than 90 precision munitions were used during this military operation and more than 35 terrorist hideouts were targeted. More than two dozen fighter planes took part in the attacks. American officials say that this operation is part of the strategy to completely defeat ISIS under Operation Inherent Resolve. Experts believe that this action has dealt a major blow to the terrorist network operating in Syria and the number of such operations may increase in the coming days.

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