According to a reliable source of the provincial government, Chitral residents are serving in the Afghan army.
Keeping in view the sensitivity of the issue, the Home department has asked the commissioner Malakand division and other concerned quarters for detailed information about the incident.
Data regarding the number of Pakistanis involved, their names, postal addresses and their regions as well as their employment status in Afghanistan will help us take appropriate action in accordance with the law, the home department stated in a press release.
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@SkinTaj: hahaha pleasee!! if we are one blood then i am cutting my wrists open and bleeding out cause I don't want such blood inside of me! afghans are not the same as Pakistanis! not even close! Afghans are what they have always been; fighting each other when their not fighting foreigners! and also they are backward people! Afghanistan is probably the least developed country in the world... Even African countries are better then Afghanistan
65 years forced coexistence on inequality basis can't let the Pashtuns do away with their thousands of years homeland from Oxus to Indus. We have done nothing for the Pashtuns living with us, except for giving them bad name and Image for the deeds we have done. all the sipah, jesh, dawas, lashkars are being created on Punjabi soil yet we blame Pashtuns for that. Lets have the ability to be critical about ourselves. There aren't any pathetic banners in Peshawar or for that matter in Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and Pashtun belt of Balochistan, but if we are so miserable in even talking about our own Pashtuns, how can we ask and force them to be with us, a state in taters, while leaving their glorious past and they giving away Peshawar being the the capital of greater Afghanistan.
@Wahab Khan Afridi: Your name sounds like an Afghan. May you explain how "Afghans" will ask for "independence" from Pak? Just curious :)
@SkinTaj: Which blood group - A B O or AB Rh + or Rh - ?
@lets see how it turns out, @Khurram, dont agree with you, actaulyl its comments liek urs which cause issues.
but yes we should stabalize realtions iwth Afghan, we are all Muslim brothers and sisters, we should have excellent relations, instead of letting our enemies take advantage of us. Muslims must unite if they want to survive else, we will be destroyed one by one.
@Embarrassment
Pakistan should stop being a slave country as it has been since its inception. Afghanistan has learned to manipulate the West just like Pakistan has been doing since 1947.
what can the poor people do?? they want employment. terrorism has failed the economy in kpk. and in desperate attempt they are joining afghan army. i am against the loy afghanistan idea. but i think it is not bad to join afghan army if it gives you some work.
@Khurram: For your kind information, I am a Pukhtun from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and nothing you have said is true. Forget Pakhtunistan, majority of Pashtuns are sick of Afghan refugees and want Afghanistan to stabilise itself. Meet any local Peshawari and you will see how we have become tired of our jobs, houses and economy being occupied by the immigrants. We would like to see Afghans return to their homes and hope Pashtuns on both sides of the border live peacefully. Also Afghanistan should stop being slave country of America and push NATO out. Der manana.
KPK Government may be worried that their voters are joining Afghan Army leaving them in tatters.
Pakistan should also recruit Afghans refugees in Pak Army and deploy them on Afghan border
Afghans will have an army? For what smuggle drugs and arms to the world?
Pakistani Pashtuns are looking for a way out of abject poverty, unemployment, underdevelopment and colonial era laws that deprive them of privileges enjoyed by the rest of Pakistan. This proves that Pashtuns in Pakistan are perennial fence sitters and will swing either way as long as their financial needs are met.
The Afghan National Army is well trained and equipped with better weapons, the Taliban are no match for them in head to head combat.
@Shahbaz:
You're underestimating the Army, you're in for a surprise. We are working on the institution and I am positive.
In KPK regions now you can easily see maps of Pakhtoonistan which talks about breaking up of Pakistan in ten years time and talks about giving Afghanistan new Expansion upto Attock regions and even the Pamhplets state that in future Karachi will belong to Pakistan while Gwadar will belong to Afghans. In Border regions now most of the people are being given free Afghan Nationality and ANP is infact is a part of this process. If you will visit Peshawar suburbs then you can see these maps on large posters stating that Bacha Khan dream will be fullfilled and region from Kabul to Attock belong to Pakhtoons only. Chitral is place with different culture than others so they are given special status and jobs in Afghanistan to soften their stance. I can see Civil War within Pakistan in coming years as Enemy Designs and love of Ethnicity is taking over. Ethnic expulsion of Hazara and Punjabis is not far away from KPK like from Balochistan as it is a part of the process to ethnically cleanse those regions to divide Pakistan.
Pakistan Afghanistan are Muslim brothers and One Blood..
Desperate times call from desperate measures but on a bit light note, what is the future of Afghan army once the Americans and NATO leave?I don't think they'll hold for even a month against the Taliban.