Peshawar, Jan 29 (NVI) Pakistani military recently resorted to extreme brutality against the Pashtuns in a number of areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing several innocent persons, including the old men, and destroying houses, according to reports.
The fresh incidents of oppression by the Pakistani military have been reported from areas of Pishin and Bannu districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to these reports, Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel raided the village of Karbala in Pishin district on the pretext of searching for militants.
As the oppressive personnel found no militants, they fired at civilians and killed two old men, the reports said.
Worse, the government forces desecrated the bodies.
They also destroyed at least 5 civilian houses.
A day prior to that, the Pakistani military detained two minor boys in Bannu district and later killed them in a fake encounter, falsely linking them to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the reports said.
On Thursday, the Pakistani soldiers shot dead a former police officer in North Waziristan, with an ostensible objective of spreading fear among the locals.
TTP, while condemning these incidents, appealed to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to rise against the oppressive Pakistani military.
“We strongly condemn all such incidents and want to remind the people that armed State institutions do not even consider you worthy of exercising caution in tragic acts such as killings. Therefore, the well-being of all of us lies in changing this system, these institutions, and the tyrants sitting above them,” said a statement issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khurasani. (NVI)
