ځینی کسان د افغانستان او پاکستان ترمنځ د شخړو د حل لپاره د خبرو اترو غوښتنه کوي
د ۲۰۲۶ کال د مارچ په ۱۷مه، موږ ملګرو ملتونو، د هاګ نړیوالې جزایي محکمې او اروپايي ټولنې ته یوه عریضه وړاندې کړې ده، او تمه لرو چې د پاکستان جنګی جنایتکاران د قانون منګلو ته وسپارل سي
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Some Voices Call for Dialogue to Resolve the Conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan
Dear Sir or Madam,
It is sometimes argued that the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be resolved through dialogue. We would like to present our position on this matter.
We do not claim Pakistan’s rights, but rather the rights of our own country, Afghanistan. Our goal is to protect our people across the Durand Line – a border which unjustly divided Afghan territory and the Afghan people. We are committed to freeing this population from oppression, violence, torture, unlawful arrests, enforced disappearances, and all forms of tyranny imposed by Pakistan’s dictators.
Furthermore, we assert the right to reunite our people and our historic territory, including Balochistan and Pashtunkhwa. The people on both sides of the Durand Line belong to one Afghan nation – to a united Greater Afghanistan.
In the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Afghan people bear no responsibility. Afghanistan has not attacked Pakistan; instead, we are subjected to attacks on our territory. Pakistan has, over decades, trained more than 30 terrorist groups, including the so-called IS-Khorasan. These groups are deployed in Afghanistan and other countries with the support of the military intelligence service ISI to create unrest. Meanwhile, Afghanistan has been unjustly blamed and scapegoated for more than 50 years.
The regime of Pakistan’s military dictators imposes conditions that are unacceptable to Afghanistan:
First, Pakistan demands recognition of the Durand Line as the official border. We cannot and will never accept the division of our Afghan people and territory caused by this line. We therefore reject this demand outright.
Second, Pakistan demands that Afghanistan sever its relations with India. India, however, has been a reliable partner and a good friend of Afghanistan for centuries, repeatedly providing humanitarian assistance without expecting anything in return. We reject this demand as well.
Third, Pakistan requires Afghanistan’s foreign policy to be under its influence. This violates our sovereignty and is therefore explicitly rejected.
Fourth, Pakistan demands the cession of the Wakhan Corridor. We make it unambiguously clear that we will not give up any part of our territory – not a single inch.
Fifth, Pakistan envisions Afghanistan maintaining only a very limited army of no more than 60,000 soldiers. We categorically reject this demand.
Sixth, Pakistan seeks to prevent Afghanistan from building a dam on the Kunar River. The Kunar is our river. We will not allow ourselves to be forbidden from constructing a dam in our own country on our own river. This demand by Pakistan is entirely unacceptable, and we categorically reject it.
Seventh, Pakistan is attempting to arrogate to itself the right to decide over Afghanistan’s natural resources and to determine with whom related contracts may be concluded. This, too, is an outrageous demand that we will under no circumstances accept, and we firmly reject it.
There are also additional unreasonable and naive demands from Pakistan, which we consider unacceptable and therefore reject entirely.
Afghanistan is a free and independent country. We insist on determining our internal, foreign, and security policies independently. Pakistan’s dictators, on the other hand, attempt to destabilize Afghanistan and bring it under their influence.
At the same time, we emphasize that we harbor no hostility toward the peoples of Sindh, Punjab, or Kashmir. We respect these people. However, we believe that actual power in Pakistan does not lie with the parliament but with military generals, making it a nominal parliament. Critics who raise their voices to defend their rights – whether journalists, activists, politicians, or intellectuals – are persecuted, abducted, arrested, tortured, murdered, or disappear without a trace and are thus silenced.
Over the past 20 years, Pakistan has conducted more than 700 attacks on Afghanistan, including the use of grenades, rockets, anti-tank weapons, and indiscriminate airstrikes. Many of these attacks hit residential areas, business districts, and civilians, killing numerous innocent people. In many cases, people – including children and women – were bombed in their sleep at night. In other cases, women were killed while performing household tasks such as washing or cooking, and children while playing. Civilians traveling by car were fired upon. Even youths gathering in a house after a cricket match were shot.
On the other side of the Durand Line, in Pashtunkhwa and Balochistan, the cycle of violence continues under the command of military generals. Bombings, targeted killings, massacres, arrests, and torture also occur there. Intellectuals, activists, or politicians who speak up to demand their rights are arrested, tortured, murdered, or disappear without a trace.
Since February 21, 2026, we have observed a renewed increase in attacks on various Afghan cities, including Khost, Kabul, Kandahar, Paktia, Paktika, Nangarhar, Kunar, and Nuristan. Many civilians have been killed or injured.
We cite the following incidents as examples:
- On February 21, 2026, Pakistan’s tyrannical forces carried out an indiscriminate bombing in Behsud district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, wiping out the family of 8-year-old Noor Alam. Seventeen members of Noor Alam’s family were killed, several others were injured, their home was completely destroyed, and a small vehicle used for firewood transport was obliterated.
- On February 26, 2026, in the Dand-i-Pathan district of Paktia province, four civilians, including children, were killed and 16 others were injured in attacks from Pakistan.
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- On March 7, 2026, a bazaar in Torkham was attacked, destroying and burning more than 150 shops and their goods.
- On March 12, 2026, in the Pul-i-Charkhe neighborhood of Kabul city, four civilians were killed and 14 others, including children and women, were injured in attacks from Pakistan.
- On March 13, 2026, at least three children and a woman were killed in Khost, with several others injured.
- On March 16, 2026, Pakistani war criminals carried out further indiscriminate airstrikes on multiple Afghan cities, including Khost, Kunar, and the capital Kabul, hitting a hospital treating sick civilians. According to media reports, over 465 people were killed and about 265 others injured, including children and women. Medical facilities in Kabul are overwhelmed by the large number of casualties.
- On March 19, 2026, an Afghan female doctor and her four-year-old son were killed by rocket fire while traveling from Kunder to Nuristan on the first day of the religious holiday Eid-ul-Fitr.
Pakistan’s attacks – as mentioned only partially above – have been occurring multiple times daily in several provinces of Afghanistan since February 21, 2026.
Many human rights organizations, including UNAMA and Amnesty International, have repeatedly reported that Pakistan has killed innocent civilians, including children and women, in its attacks in Afghanistan. Pakistan ignores these reports and shows no interest in addressing them.
Through its numerous attacks, Pakistan has not only killed and injured many innocent Afghan civilians but has also violated our airspace, thereby acting in clear violation of international law. We demand the immediate cessation of all Pakistani attacks on Afghan territory, including bombings by aircraft and drones, as well as rocket, grenade, and anti-tank attacks.
We call for the reunification of our divided people and territory and for a free and independent Greater Afghanistan. As long as political power in Pakistan remains in the hands of military generals, we see no basis for normalizing relations. Consequently, we have reduced our trade relations with Pakistan to zero. Improvement in relations will only be possible once political power is transferred from the military generals to the parliament, democratic structures in Pakistan are strengthened, and the country attains a liberal government.
Furthermore, we criticize the international community, including the European Union and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, for having largely ignored Pakistan’s violations of international law. On March 17, 2026, we submitted a petition to the United Nations, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and the European Union, hoping that the responsible Pakistani war criminals will be held accountable in court.
Sincerely,