The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement has submitted requests to the British government to prevent attacks by Pakistan on Afghan civilians.
Tensions and international condemnations over Pakistan’s military actions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan continue. Recently, in a letter, PTM made it clear to the British government that Pakistan, under the pretext of counterterrorism, is targeting and destroying civilian facilities in both regions.
The letter was submitted to the office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, calling on the UK to stop Pakistan from carrying out attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan, and to put an end to the killing of innocent Afghans.
A PTM member said: “We, on behalf of the PTM UK branch, held a large protest in front of the British Parliament to condemn Pakistan’s aggression on Afghan soil and what we describe as the genocide of Afghans. We will continue to present evidence of Pakistan’s crimes to the world.”
Along with submitting the letter, PTM stated that it plans to organize further protests in some European countries against the Pakistani military regime’s actions.
PTM members assure that they will continue raising their voice against what they describe as the oppression of civilians in Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A central committee member of PTM, Zeer Shah Agha, said: “PTM has held protests in different countries against Pakistan’s attacks and has submitted petitions to those governments. Recently, the resolution of the protest held in the UK was also delivered to the British Prime Minister’s office.”
Another central committee member, Khairullah Amin, said: “We have submitted signatures against what is happening under the pretext of counterterrorism, which we consider genocide against Pashtuns. Forcibly displacing people from their homes and killing them brutally is a crime, and such acts have also taken place in areas like Tirah and Kurram.”
PTM leaders and prominent members have also condemned ongoing attacks by Pakistan’s military regime in regions such as Tirah, Kurram, as well as in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, and Kabul, calling for an immediate halt to these actions.
They said the deadliest of these attacks was a strike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul, where, according to official figures, around 400 people were killed and nearly 300 others were injured.
