Pashtun activist warns UN of human rights abuses, fake military operations in Pakistan

Sep 16, 2025

Geneva [Switzerland], September 16 (ANI): Pashtun political activist Fazal Ur Rehman Afridi has expressed serious concerns about what he termed continuous human rights abuses, state-sponsored militancy, and natural resource exploitation in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Addressing the international community, Afridi accused the Pakistani military of carrying out false flag military operations under the pretense of combating terrorism, while targeting innocent civilians, particularly Pashtun women and children. According to Afridi, the Pakistani state has allegedly reintegrated over 55,000 members of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and their families into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under a secret agreement, while publicly claiming to conduct operations against them. Afridi emphasised that over 40 drone attacks have been carried out in the region without a single high-profile TTP figure being killed. Instead, he said, civilians continue to bear the brunt of these attacks.