Erieye
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Jinnah offered the other side of Punjab to join and they declined. What did you want them to do?"Hate" is a strong word but the way I see it, some ethnicities who are not Punjabi are frustrated with Punjab and they have some valid reasons.
Firstly, it was not the partition of Pakistan, but partition of Punjab. Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus of Punjab were killing each other in 47. The people of KP, Sind and Baluchistan had nothing to do with anything that is modern day part of India and in fact, if Punjab didn't go through a civil war, Kashmir would have been free as well because mainland Hindus of India would have not have had access unless Punjab was united as one. After dividing your own, you can't label it as "Pakistan's war of independence".
Secondly, it is well know that Pakistan Army is getting called out including by Punjabis themselves. But when you are 60% Punjabi and take training and inspiration from British colonialism, the optics from non Punjabi lens is bad and lets not forget that Zia ul Haq was the other extreme, the most hated General this nation has ever produced who was a Punjabi and who created extremists like the Taliban who went on to cause massive destruction in KP and Afghanistan. The rule is don't play with fire. Wherever there is a tribal system, respect it and let their issues be solved by their tribal heads.
Third, Sindhis and Balochis have feudalism. That is a big issue but the last thing you want to do is buy Sardars. As the largest ethnicity, you have the responsibility of playing neutral and not do things like extracting their gas and giving those not picked by you the excuse to label you of stealing it.
Fourtly, while Sindhis, Baluchistan and Pashtuns are proud of their heritage and culture, entertaining and imposing Indian culture, including Indian language is a crime. None other than Lahoris themselves invited Javed Akhatar who we just saw insulted Pakistanis on Pakistani soil and rather than condemn him, the elites of Punjab worshipped and kissed his feet. What message does that send?
Fifth, all the decisions of elections are decided in Punjab. Is that fair?
And this Zia stuff is literally just cope. more than half of ur population itself is extremist and praises the taliban. The most hated general is actually Musharraf literally due to the opposite reason you stated.
Secondly, Hamid Gul, Assad Durrani, and Naseerullah Babar Khan were the biggest supporters and architects of the Taliban. All Pashtun. Even today the most common supporters of the Taliban are Pashtuns, ironically even of the TTP!
Yahya Khan the marital law dictator and General Niazi were responsible for the loss of Bangladesh. Ayub Khan from KPK another dictator.
Zia united the country when it was fragmented and then took the war to the soviets in Afghanistan which Pashtuns themselves wanted, and its literally part of the tribal cultures people. He was literally the best one from all of them and his tenure experienced the highest rate of growth.
Taliban, extremism, TTP, violence, losing Bangladesh - all Pasthuns lmao. The security situation they themselves created scares away any FDI or infrastructual development and then they simultaneously complain of no development and oppression. cringe.