Pashtuns demand public apology for the killing of Pashtuns from the United State

Pashtuns demand public apology for the killing of Pashtuns from the United State.
Pashtun Peace Forum - Canada

Pashtuns demand public apology for the killing of Pashtuns from the United State and other countries that have played a role to kill over 270,000 Pashtuns
Toronto – Canada (April 25, 2009) – In an appearance before a subcommittee of the US House Appropriations Committee on April 23, 2009, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that the United States has a share in creating the problem that plagues Pakistan today.

Hillary Clinton says that ‘… the problems we face now to some extent we have to take responsibility for, having contributed to it. We also have a history of kind of moving in and out of Pakistan,’ ‘Let’s remember here… the people we are fighting today we funded them twenty years ago… and we did it because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union.’ ‘They invaded Afghanistan… and we did not want to see them control Central Asia and we went to work… and it was President Reagan in partnership with Congress led by Democrats who said you know what it sounds like a pretty good idea… let’s deal with the ISI and the Pakistan military and let’s go recruit these mujahideen.’ ‘And great, let them come from Saudi Arabia and other countries, importing their Wahabi brand of Islam so that we can go beat the Soviet Union.’ ‘And guess what … they (Soviets) retreated … they lost billions of dollars and it led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.’ ‘So there is a very strong argument which is… it wasn’t a bad investment in terms of Soviet Union but let’s be careful with what we sow… because we will harvest.’ ‘So we then left Pakistan … We said okay fine you deal with the Stingers that we left all over your country… you deal with the mines that are along the border and… by the way we don’t want to have anything to do with you… in fact we’re sanctioning you… So we stopped dealing with the Pakistani military and with ISI and we now are making up for a lot of lost time.’

Pashtun Peace Forum – Canada remind Ms. Clinton and the international community that they need to put the record straight and reminds her that it was not Pakistan or Pakistanis in general that suffered but it was Pashtuns and their infrastructure which suffered. During the Afghan War (1979-1989), 270,000 Pashtuns were killed on both sides of the Durand line while more than 35 million Pashtuns were made refugees. On one hand the war served the purpose of USA to defeat Russia and on the other hand this war served the interests of the Pakistani- power-elite to counter Pashtuns democratic and nationalist sentiments with Pan-Islamic ideology and Wahabi doctrine of Islam.

We ask Ms. Clinton, the international community and regional nations who used Pashtuns and their land against Soviet Union, now Pashtuns demand public apology for the killing of Pashtuns from the United State and other countries that have killed over 270,000 Pashtuns during Afghan war and this game is again started after 9/11. We also demand the US, the international community and regional nations to provide help to Pashtuns to reverse the extremist and transform its real support basis for the good because the United State has admitted it for the first time and now it is their and other nations moral responsibility to change the course of action and work with 52 million Pashtuns to bring regional stability and global security. We also ask Pakistan government and its agencies to not use Pashtun soil for others’ war any more.
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