Why and how is North Waziristan being transferred to Afghanistan?
Author: Faruq Farda, Analyst
Waziristan is divided into two parts - North Waziristan and South Waziristan. North Waziristan is mostly mountainous and tribal. The area has less agricultural land and its people have lived for many years by animal husbandry, and even now animal husbandry and gardening are considered a source of income for some people. Until 1893, when the Durand Line had not yet been drawn, Waziristan was considered a free region. Some believe that this region was not subject to either Afghanistan or British India. Its inhabitants are warriors, and brave, and the society is patriarchal.
With the formation of Pakistan in 1947, North Waziristan joined Pakistan. In order to subjugate the people of Waziristan, Pakistan made several marches there, and as a result, bloody wars took place between them. Finally, the government of Pakistan, by force of arms and a strong army, took over this land and people and tried to win their hearts by doing some charitable work. Conducting electricity and building roads had a great impact on people's lives.
The people of this land consist of two tribes, one of which is Usmanzai and the other is Ahmadzai. Although there is no special friendship between them, their language is Pashto and the accent has a special dialect. The accent of the people of North Waziristan differs from that of the Afghan Waziri who live along Safedkuh. The inhabitants of Waziristan interchangeably use the vowels "alif", "vov" and "yo". They all speak in a melodious way, and therefore the sweetness of the Waziristani accent cannot be compared with dozens of Pashto dialects. It is different.
The city of Miran Shah, bordering the Afghan province of Khost, is called the center of North Waziristan. Let us remember that this Miranshah is not connected with the name of Miranshah, the son of Timur. Because Miranshah, who was the third son of Timur, ruled mainly the northern regions of Iran, especially Azerbaijan, and not these regions.
Waziristan has strategic points in terms of war. Pakistan chose North Waziristan to expand jihadist schools for two reasons: firstly, using the religious feelings of these people, and secondly, using schools to concentrate military forces in this place in order to keep the inhabitants of North Waziristan under control.
When I visited North Waziristan a few years ago, there were five thousand madrasas-schools. Schools in North Waziristan start at the level of mosques and expand into schools with modern buildings with dormitories for students.
The Pakistani authorities have opened secret madrasas for non-local youth in relatively dark and winding parts of the mountains. Ordinary people and even Pakistani and Afghan students are prohibited from attending these schools. Secret school teachers are also not allowed to visit other students from other buildings and vice versa. The security situation in these areas is very dire.
Thousands of young people are educated in these schools. teachers in these schools are Pakistanis, Arabs and citizens of other interested countries, mawlawis, mullahs, and military specialists.
The methods of admission to these schools are also special. Students enter these schools in two ways. The first way is the choice of children of migrants and local residents, including those from some other parts of Pakistan. Preference is also given to citizens of the two Kashmirs. Children will be drawn to the mosques from childhood and they rise step by step. Most of the suicide bombers are selected from these mosques and sent for further training. Each mosque must annually prepare its quota for the suicide center in accordance with the number of its students. They choose suicide bombers from the descendants of migrants and their own people, not Pakistanis.
The suicide center in North Waziristan has a separate school. Although every higher madrasah has training fields, the suicide school, by contrast, is very well equipped. Joining or becoming a student in this school is a complex process. Despite the fact that many checks are carried out during the upbringing of children in a mosque, and when they get into the list of the chosen ones, Pakistani intelligence carefully checks their family history, and leaving the list will have sad consequences not only for the chosen victim but also for his family too. In the suicide school, in addition to exercises on going to heaven, explosions, suicide, and working with weapons, films about heaven and the love of naked houris are also shown, which encourage teenagers and young people to stimulate lust. This center divided the volunteers into the first, second, and third categories. For people who prepare with great care and attention, there is no going back. Their food is different from the food at other schools. Suicide school students are taught that martyrdom is the highest degree to which God himself meets the martyr. They are told that their food would be brought from heaven and that God himself would send it to them. When they get there, this food is served to them by the houris.
Other people from mosque schools are first transferred to secondary schools. Newly minted schoolchildren in the region have the right to return home twice a month. Elderly people who pass exams can go home more often, but foreigners do not have this right, because they have no home and nowhere to go.
The second way is the selection of adolescents and young people from Iran, Arab countries, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uighurs of China, Sudan, Somalia, Morocco, and the Caucasian regions of Russia. These young people are being ransomed from their families for $500-$1,000 by preaching groups under the pretense of God's grace and gift. They tell families that you have entered into the grace of God who chose their child.
During their training, their families are sometimes sent some money, which seems to give them hope and blessings. This act influences other poor and low-income families so that their young people are interested in getting them into these schools.
Pakistani graduates of these schools are appointed to the religious councils of Pakistan, and to mosques instead of uneducated mullahs and even servants and muezzins. Local youths join Taliban and violent groups and support hotspots using religion to draw the world's attention to supporting these deviant centers.
Children of migrants and foreigners are waiting to return to their countries after being educated to participate in suicide operations (istishadi) to establish Islamic governments and caliphates. Many of them, upon returning, immediately begin to create Islamic parties and recruit Muslim youth from their countries. Those whose presence is worried in their countries include the organized terrorist groups Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, various branches of ISIS, Salafis, and other groups. Most of the leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has a strong presence in northern Afghanistan and Central Asia, are also graduates of these schools.
The answer to the question of why Pakistan wants to keep the training network of terrorists and radical Islamists in Afghanistan is already clear.
North Waziristan has become very famous as the center of education for terrorism and fundamentalism in the world. India has played a prominent role in making the region known to the world, as several of the Muslim terrorists and destroyers arrested in India were graduates of these schools.
Currently, on the one hand, international assistance to Pakistan has been reduced, and on the other hand, religious and terrorist graduates of these schools have become a source of danger for the Pakistani government itself. Therefore, the Pakistani military shows less interest in the continuation of these madrasas.
The Waziristanization of northern Afghanistan began with Pakistan for obvious reasons. The Taliban are smuggling these jihadists under the guise of nakils (settlers) and migrants and argue that the Waziristani were transferred to Afghanistan under the Karzai and Ghani regimes as well. Indeed, this process began under the governments of Karzai and Ashraf Ghani, somewhere with conditions, and somewhere without conditions (according to the regulation on naqils adopted by Amanullakhan, governments must create all conditions for their resettlement and residence - “Sangar”). About six thousand people were in tents in the Garbez district of the Khost region. They built a camp for them. They built a camp for them. At present, these people have built houses for themselves, dug wells, and begun to settle down in full.
The areas bordering Chitral in the province of Kunar are overrun by these people under the pretext of migration. Pashtuns on the other side of the Durand line from different areas with different dialects of Waziri, Chitrali, and Mehsud first migrated as migrants, they were welcomed by the people of Kunar, but they were not and are not migrants. In Ghani's time, they were afraid to carry weapons, but now every one of their youths walks around with two guns. Where do they get these weapons from? Who is arming them? And their newcomers, when moving from Waziristan, along with things, bring a lot of weapons, and the locals cannot object to them, although they have one language and one culture. In some areas of Kunar, the locals are already tired of them.
The Taliban want to influence northern Afghanistan for two reasons. The political goal is to unite the North as a whole through naqils. With their strength and weapons, they make the peaceful life of people dependent on the orders and prohibitions of armed people, in order to pave the way for the construction of jihadist schools and facilitate the transfer of terrorists, mullahs, and suicide bombers to Central Asia and China.
Migration is subject to certain conditions, but there is no law on migration in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan is not an ideal place for migration for obvious reasons, primarily due to the large population and great socio-economic problems. But the Taliban continue to transfer terrorists under the name of "migrant mohajer" and move schools from Waziristan to northern Afghanistan in pursuit of their political goals. This is not an easy task, if the Taliban does not know about the consequences, he needs to be explained, and if he does, then he needs to be stopped in any possible way. These actions have serious consequences. This move has serious consequences. If no one thinks about it today, in the near and distant future there will be such a genocide in Afghanistan that history does not remember.
At the same time, the destruction of culture will begin, which will continue until generations are destroyed. The historical honors of the people of this land will also be turned into dust and smoke. Nowruz will be hanged, mention of Maulana, Abu Ali Sina, Rabiya Balkhi, Firdowsi, Jami, Sanai Ghaznavi, Zahir Faryabi, Khanzala Badgisi, Ibn Yamin, Amir Alishir Navai, Gohar Tajbegum, and others will be considered blasphemy. Let's not talk about the Pashtun names of Ahmad Shah Abdali, Mirwais Khan Hotaki, Mullah Meshkalam, Mohammad Jan Khan Wardak, Mir Masjidi Khan, Mohammad Jan Khan Darvazi, Dr. Najibullah, which have already been crossed out.
Some observers believe that the Taliban are planning to resettle these people even in Pashtun-populated provinces. They are doing this because the final plan of the Taliban and Pakistan is to create an Afghan-Pakistan Confederation and first the ground needs to be set for it. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Pakistan once made a deal on this confederation. If Hekmatyar had succeeded in the internecine wars in 1993 and occupied the Arg, he would have created a confederation, and then there would be no need to create a Taliban group. Everything would be over. But now Pakistan still sees the possibility of implementing this plan, since after the confederation the problem of the Durand line will be resolved and the territory of Afghanistan will become part of Pakistan.
Then another stage will begin - the transfer of terrorism from Afghanistan to Central Asia. The countries of this region will become the Afghanistan of the last forty years. War and fratricide will spread, and no matter how strong Russia is, it will not be able to control the whole of Central Asia, because these countries will become an expendable resource and Russia will not be able to provide them. On the other hand, the pain in the head of Central Asia will spread to the bone marrow of Russia, and the expectation of these countries from Russia will be in vain.
There is one solution here: the intellectuals of Afghanistan must go to the square of sacrifice, put aside all their contradictions and take measures to save the country. In this regard, the countries of Central Asia, in particular, have an obligation to support and cooperate with the emerging intellectual forces to save themselves and Afghanistan.
