#afghans in pakistan

[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

#resources #important #congo #sudan #tigray #sámi #hawai'i #syria #kashmir #iran #uyghurs #china #tibetans #yazidi #west papua #yemen #sri lanka #afghans in pakistan #pakistan #human rights #palestine #twitter #lmk if there's a better reource or I linked smth wrong. I am very tired #my posts #genocide #social justice #nagorno karabakh #Bahá'í #kafala system #qatar

[khaperai]

Ethnic Turkmen from Afghanistan selling their hand-made rugs in the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan.

#Peshawar #turkmen #afghan #Pakistan #khyber pakhtunkhwa #afghan rugs #i stole this from twitter buts its fine we hate twitter #pekhawar #kpk #nwfp #Afghanistan #own post

[bobemajses]

Do the Pashtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan have Jewish ancestry?

The Pashtuns, now Afghanistan’s majority ethnic group and heavily involved in the establishment of the Taliban, sometimes call themselves "Bani Israel" and have a tribal legend which states that a Jewish group settled near the modern town of Herat and later converted to Islam after their leader met with Prophet Mohammed. Jewish Virtual Library writes that some Pashtuns have Jewish sounding names such as Asheri, Binyamin and Naftali, and that they practice Jewish customs such as marrying under a chuppah, lighting candles on fridays and circumcising their sons eight days after birth. This could also be explained through the Pashtuns’ connection with Jewish warriors, merchants, and administrative officers who traveled and settled on the Silk Road and left their influence on the local residents — but it is certainly intriguing.

The Assyrians conquered the kingdom of Israel some 2,730 years ago, scattering 10 of the 12 tribes into exile, supposedly beyond the mythical Sambation river. The two remaining tribes, Benjamin and Judah, became the modern-day Jewish people, and the search for the lost tribes has continued ever since. Some have claimed to have found traces of them in modern day China, Burma, Nigeria, India, Central Asia and Ethiopia. But it is believed that the tribes were dispersed in an area around modern-day northern Iraq and Afghanistan, which makes the Pashtun connection the strongest.

However, an Israeli government-funded DNA test found no genetic link between Jews and Pashtuns. They seem to share a greater affinity with Central Asian populations such as Tajiks or Turkmens, as well as with some Iranian and Caucasian groups. Whatever might be true, most Pashtuns today are strict Muslims with their own language and culture and have no interest in reconnecting with these assumed Jewish roots.

#pashtun #afghanistan #pakistan #jewish #pathans #afghan

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Afghans flee Pakistan en masse: “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us back”

Pakistan is set to begin forcibly removing 1.7 million migrants, many of them Afghans who fled the Taliban, Sky News reports.

Thousands of Afghans are fleeing Pakistan ahead of the government’s Wednesday deadline for undocumented or unregistered foreign nationals to leave the country.

Last month, Pakistan’s interim government threatened to round up, detain and deport those who do not leave the country voluntarily. Islamabad blames Afghan migrants for a surge in armed attacks, mainly in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southwestern province of Balochistan on the border with Afghanistan.

Learn more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #pakistan news #pakistan #taliban #afganistan #afghan refugees #afghan women #afghanistan

[queerism1969]

#muslim #lgbtq community #lesbian #nonbinary #lgbt pride #lgbtqia #lgbtq #sapphic #nonbinary lesbian #gay girls #queer #islamdaily #islam #islamicquotes #islamic #deen #quran #pakistan #afgan #afghan crisis #bangladesh #india #afghanistan #asia #queerbaiting #gender queer #queer nsft #queer poetry #lgbt #queer pride

[molkolsdal]

Hafsa Khan for ayeda.boutique

#ayeda.boutique #ayeda luxury #Hafsa Khan #afghan #fashion #clothes #pakistan

[paulpingminho]

#carpet #colorful #Persian carpet #Afghan carpet #Pakistani carpet #Lahore #Pakistan

[idostuff321]

*WIP* (I ain't finishing this 💀)

Noo, Afghanistans nosy neighbors are trying to make him smile 😨

I got lazy halfway through when I started losing my creative energy. I'll prolly be posting it to my other socials soon but Ima just go to sleep for now.

But yea inspired by Lestercal-R on Tiktok!

WAIT UZBEK PPL ARE REAL!?

#countryhumans #countryhumans art #countryhumans afghanistan #countryhumans pakistan #countryhumans tajikistan #countryhumans uzbekistan #sooo lemme explain whats canon in irl lore with these relationship dynamics #afghanistan and tajikistan are persian siblings! While pakistan and uzbekistan were like really involved in afghan politics #more so pakistan #much to afghanistans dismay #also pak and uzbek were indirect enemies once during that one conflict in afghanistan but theyll still get along no matter what 💀

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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#sry but you will never catch me being proud of being canadian or pakistani #what Pakistan did and is doing to Afghans is horrendous #and canada.....i dont even need to say #i am only proud of being kashmiri and punjabi #the others r just a formality 🥴 #mehrtalks

[chaiaurchaandni]

on mass deportations of afghan refugees in pakistan

pls watch this video, its not exhaustive and ur encouraged to reserach more but this is a v good intro to the afghan refugee crisis in pakistan right now.

not many people are talking about this but this is a gross human rights violation. according to pakistan's citizenship laws, people born on pakistani soil are automatically eligible for citizenship and parents/spouses of pakistani citizens are also eligible for citizenship. however, these laws have not been extended to afghan refugees. now these refugees are being deported to afghanistan, even tho many of them have never been to aghanistan. theyre literally being sent to camps on the pak-afghan border and forced to take classes on how to evade landmines. the police is also targeting and brutalizing documented afghan refugees. any success and wealth that afghan refugees accumulated has been in spite of the bigotry of most of the pakistani population and in spite of the shitty pakistani government. these civilians are in no way a strain on pakistan's economy, neither do they pose a security threat. theyre just being used by the pakistani establishment as a political pawn to get back at the taliban govt in afghanistan and to appease the pakistani population in the wake of intense economic and political instability. the conditons in afghanistan are already horrible and the vid touched upon that. afg has suffered some major earthqakes that have killed thousands of people, in addition to the sanctions + ofc the fact that the country is trying to rebuild after almost half a centruy of violent conflict

also want to point out how sick this is considering that pakistan benefitted a lot from the wars in afghanistan (against the soviets and against the taliban as well) bec of US aid and then bec of aid that was given to pakistan to cater to afghan refugees (ofc this aid almost never made it to the people who needed it - pakistan has p much no welfare programmes for the refugees) and pakistanis are often discriminatory/racist against afghan refugees. the afghan people have suffered a lot due to pakistan's greed and now theyre suffering once again. pakistanis are literally using similar rhetoric thats used against pakistani immgrants abroad (that theyre illegal aliens, that theyre illiterate regressive extremists, that theyre rapists and criminals)

#afghan refugee crisis #afghanistan #pakistan #pakistani politics #deportation #human rights #current affairs #Youtube

[trmpt]

#afghanistan #pakistan #afghan refugees

[head-post]

Afghans leave Pakistan ahead of deadline

A huge number of Afghans headed to the Pakistani border to return home hours before a deadline set by the Pakistani government. Illegal residents must leave the country or face deportation,

The deadline is part of a new crackdown on migrants, according to Islamabad. However, the measure applies to Afghans, who comprise the majority of migrants in Pakistan.

Pakistani officials warn that people staying in the country illegally will face arrest and deportation from November 1. UN agencies say there are more than 2 million undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan, at least 600,000 of whom have fled since the Taliban took power in 2021.

The campaign comes amid strained relations between Pakistan and the Taliban rulers. Islamabad accuses Kabul of closing its eyes to militant Taliban allies who take refuge in Afghanistan to organise attacks in Pakistan. The Taliban denies the accusations.

Learn more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #afghanistan news #afghanistan #afghan refugees #pakistan news #pakistan #taliban

[cupshup-blog]

#Girls of remote Afghanistan #Afghan girl #Pakistan remote girl #Pakistani Girl #Rugged area reality

[molkolsdal]

Photographed In Bannu, c. 1958

“A Photograph of two women wearing long-sleeved embroidered dresses with wide cuffs. The skirts of the dresses are full and heavily gathered at the bodice. They have chadors over their heads. Both women are wearing heavy jewellery including nose rings, finger rings, earrings, headpieces and ornate necklaces. They are smiling towards the camera. The photograph is held with others taken by Dr Stella Underhill when she was based at the Church Mission Society hospital at Bannu (in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan). The caption with the photograph records that the women were from the capital of Afghanistan. The mission hospital welcomed patients and visitors who had travelled considerable distances, including men, women and children from Afghanistan.”

© Cadbury Research Library via North-West Frontier Archives

#bannu #💗 #1950s #women #fashion #Stella Underhill #kpk #Pakistan #khyber pakhtunkhwa #Afghan #history

[skiddo-xy]

Kalash people: Pakistan's Smallest Ethnic Minority

The Kalash people are a Pakistani ethnoreligious group. Having a population of only around 3500, they are one of the smallest ethnic groups in Pakistan.

Where do the Kalash people live?

The Kalash people live in the Kalasha valleys of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, bordering the Afghan province of Nuristan. The Nuristanis of that region are considered to be ethnically and culturally related to the Kalash.

Who are the Kalash people descended from?

The Kalash people believe themselves to be descended from Alexander the Great's troops. Some genetic evidence however, claims the contrary (while some affirms it). Other scientists claim that the Kalash people are purely South Asian.

How do the Kalash people identify religiously?

Roughly half of the Kalash people are mostly muslim, after historically being forcibly converted as result of Abdul Rahman Khan's rule. The rest are mostly practicioners of the polytheistic, animist Kalash religion

Kalash celebrations / Chilam Joshi

The Kalash people have three main festivals, listed and described below:

Chilam Joshi

Chilam Joshi (also called "milk day" or "yogurt drink day"). During Chilam Joshi, men and women meet in hopes of finding a spouse. This festival is celebrated with drums and dancing. In 2022, this festival was celebrated from 14 May - 18 May.

2. Uchau

Uchau is celebrated during summer to "thank nature for blessing [the Kalash people] with the harvest season". This festival will be celebrated in 2022 from August 20th to August 24th.

3. Chawmos

During this festival, the Kalash people chant to the Balmain spirit of the Kalash religion. The Kalash people feast, up until the community elders declare the new year. Once they have declared the new year, boys and girls divide and make a bonfire. In 2022, this festival will be celebrated from 16 December to 22 December.

Kalash Clothing

Kalash clothing is very vibrant, often characterized by it's bright designs on dark fabric.

Sources: Kalasha valleys wikipedia, Nuristanis wikipedia, Kalash new worl encyclopedia, Kalash people wikipedia, Chawmos wikipedia, Chilam Joshi wikipedia, Chitral tour packages nature adventure club, Humans of Himalayas: Kalash people photo, Discover Pakistan: Chilam Joshi (this was on TV at my grandma's house), Kalash clothes picture.

#pakistan #afghanistan #afghan #pakistani #pakistani culture #ethinicity #culture #chilam joshi #kalash #nuristan #nuristani #khyber pakhtunkhwa #south asia #south asian #south asian culture #religion #history #alexander the great #chawmos

[paulpingminho]

#vendor fair #carpets #Persian carpets #Afghan carpets #Pakistani carpets #Islamabad #Pakistan