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EFSAS Webinar: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement - Speech of Ms. Gulalai Ismail

 

Ms. Gulalai Ismail deliberated upon the long history of oppression that the Pashtun people have been suffering at the hands of the Pakistani State. As she explained, the war on Pashtun identity has been as old as British colonisation, since the British engaged with the population in order to fulfil their own objectives vis-à-vis the strategic location of the community that acted as a buffer zone in the ‘Great Game’ for Afghanistan against the Russian Empire.

 

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