Pakistan is no ally of the United States and hasn’t been for years, but no one in Washington knows that yet.
“Pakistan joins hand with Taliban to destroy Afghan identity, culture: Former Pak senator,” WebIndia123, November 12, 2021:
A former senator of Pakistan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has accused Islamabad of joining hands with the Taliban to “destroy” Afghan identity and its culture.
In an interview with the Amsterdam-based European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), Afrasiab Khattak, who is also a Pashtun rights activist said, “Pakistan expanded into Afghanistan through its strategic depth policy.
During the Afghan civil war, the Pakistani military establishment, aided by the US and the Arab Gulf States, enrolled Afghan refugees in Pakistani madrassas to brainwash them with extremist Islamist ideologies”.
Khattak believes that these measures were aimed at ultimately emphasising the Afghans’ Muslim identity over their identity as Afghans and Pashtuns, and thereby deconstructing the Afghan/Pashtun component of their communal identity.
He observed that this erosion also played out in practice as the Taliban sought to destroy cultural products and practices that were seen as Afghan, replacing them with the Taliban’s interpretation of Sharia law.
The Taliban, according to Khattak, were thus programmed to destroy Afghan identity and thereby serve the Pakistani military establishment’s aim of ultimately transforming Afghanistan into a cultural extension of Pakistan.
From the late 1980s onwards, this strategic depth policy was also expanded towards India’s Jammu & Kashmir. Here too, the identity of Kashmiris as Muslims was and is prioritised over other identity markers.
However, as Khattak argued, this is a “suicidal policy” for Pakistan, because while Pakistan invests all its efforts in militarisation, its economic development eventually deteriorates. While Pakistan has the potential of becoming even a regional economic power, this strategic policy of Talibanisation has hindered its socio-economic development.
In view of the Pakistani military establishment, Jammu & Kashmir as well as Afghanistan should be treated as extensions of Pakistan aimed at hegemonizing it under Pakistani rule. The Taliban, Khattak concluded, were the most important element of this policy approach. Therefore, the current Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, which aims to protect the Pashtun identity, while being non-violent is met with so much brutality by the Taliban….
Dhimmi says
Perhaps they enrolled Afghan terrorists in the Pakistany army
roberta says
The Paki’s know just how truly stupid the Afghani’s are.
They only need to show them how to strap on the vest. Probably still
takes a few semesters for them to get it right.
gravenimage says
‘Pakistani military enrolled Afghan refugees in madrassas to brainwash them with Islamist ideologies’
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Oh, great–and it looks like we paid for part of this.
Of course, the idea that violent Islam is not already a major aspect of “Afghan identity” is sadly mistaken…
Infidel says
Precisely! Any bets on how secular this ‘Pashtun Tahafuz movement’ really is?
Thomas Richard says
Is the West pumping billions of dollars into Pakistan to prevent it going nuclear?
Or, are our leaders so corrupt and bought that they’re simply maintaining a tradition?
Walter Sieruk says
Jihadist suicide /homicide attacks do lead to the subject that there are Muslim mind control places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas.
In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4.
Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31.
Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique , and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”
Walter Sieruk says
The word that is used just above, top, picture which is “brainwash” is a fitting is a appropriate fitting term to describe the murderous jihad mindset and is so thoroughly ingrained in to thoughts of young Muslims in those many madrassas. Though places are really Islamic violent jihad mind programming centers.
ceres says
Walter, those madrasses not only brainwash they cause sexual deviation. All who study Islam know its hatred of females and its intense abuse and control of same. But they also abuse young boys as 2 friends from this area told me when they were sent to the madrassa the clerics and older boys would rape them and they would also be brutally treated, punished. Indeed in an area of Afghanistan, according to a Canadian doctor who worked there, the men so loathed women they avoided ‘touching’ them but had a ‘harem’ of young boys….who apparently aspired to having a harem of young boys themself!! To call Islam depraved and twisted just doesn’t seem enough.