Jan Achakzai

Bombs for Pashtoons and Dollars for Punjab PNS 05/14/2009 By Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak Pashtoons: The ethnic group living on both sides of Durandline and most affected ethnicity in the pre and post 9/11 afghan war. Punjab: The eastern province of Pakistan, receiving least damage in war on terror, and mostly occupies Pakistani civil and military offices. I would like to mention here a base for choosing the title for this article. In Pashtoon culture, Hujra (guest house) is very old and big social institution and it is different from guest houses of modern world. It is a common guest house of many neighbouring families and most of the men sit and discuss the current issues in evening in informal way. The elders tell their expertise and the younger’s listen and analyse their expertise keeping in mind the current situation. Now this Hujra took a modern shape and Pashtoons have a web Hujra where many educated Pashtoons from all over the world come and discuss different topics. As...

Courtesy Daily Times Rich Arabs in the Middle East are ‘earning’ a place in paradise in the life hereafter through never ending generous donations to the Taliban and the madrassas producing foot soldiers and a jihadi mindset on the Pakhtun land. They do not even care to consider that their ‘pursuit’ of a place in paradise is causing so much death and destruction This column is about the lack of action of the Pakhtun diaspora on its most important role in the cultural, economic, social and political survival of their ethnic brothers and sisters in their native land. I am referring to generous donations that the Pakhtun diasporic communities in North America, Europe and the Middle East can and should contribute to counter the Taliban and Talibanisation in the Pakhtunkhwa province and FATA. This is the most vital role that the diaspora must play in the war on terror on the Pakhtun land, but so far it has badly failed to deliver in this regard. I travelled across the Pakhtunkhwa province a...