Rights and Opportunities for Migrants

Your state gave me

permission to attend school.

I also learned English and computers in Pakistan.

My parents

had clothes to wear.

They received good meals five times, three times a day.

Your state gave me these rights.

As a refugee.

When a refugee is given so many rights, your state has done well.

We ask you this question. I ask you, you, you, you of Peshawar and Quetta

young people, this question.

When the Pakistani state gives a refugee so many rights.

But your state gave you, a Peshawari, far more rights than it gave me.

Right? It even gave you a government job, and your roads are built,

You have electricity, brother, you can go to college, you have everything.

Meaning, the rights given to me as a refugee,

Aren't you ashamed to speak against your own state?

These young people, don't—don't make noise, don't make noise.

This, this, this, this, this, this is a very unusual question.

If you had a grievance against the oppressive government, what would you do?

Look, it is not your state. I swear to God, it has given you everything.

You are very arrogant people.

May God make you suffer, when now the state has given you schools.

Hey, it has given you something. Right? With a Pakistani

passport, you can go anywhere. With an Afghan passport, even in Afghanistan

nobody recognizes you.

What happened?

Now, this Pakistani passport in your pocket, and this state has given you everything

in Peshawar and Quetta.

You have an identity in the world. Don't you see, in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, London, and

everywhere else, Pakistani students, universities? The state has given you these

rights.

Why are you, a Pashtun from Southern Pashtunkhwa, so dishonorable that you are against your state?

خلاف تری.

But your state tells you that these people in the tribal areas are terrorists, that they do not let you live,

nor do they let me live.

You say these terrorists are right, but I don't see these terrorists as being right either.

I see. These, these

terrorists were sent to me. These terrorists

this state

says are in the tribal areas. Why are these terrorists in my country now?

Look at my life. Do you like this life for yourself?

Do you like this life for yourself? If not, then it becomes clear that your state is in the right.

Your state is in the right. Pashtuns of southern Pakhtunkhwa, don't make trouble for

yourselves.

Don't make trouble for yourselves. This fine, thriving university of yours, don't ruin it with

this

destruction. That's all I have to say to you.

Brothers, the people of southern Pakhtunkhwa should respect their state.

We did not respect our republic, and we were humiliated in shame.

We were humiliated before the world. We have no place anywhere.

No one even recognizes our ID cards.

I swear to God, Kabrashi,

We do not have passports, we do not have a state, we do not have an embassy, we do not have a consulate, in

In a country nowadays. Why did we do this, that we Afghans

state

did not respect, nor did we…

You have dragged a hammer after your state, striking it bit by bit.

This will please you when you go to America, Europe, or another country,

stand there and ask, “Where is the Afghan embassy?” and they tell you

“Where does this tribe come from?”

If this is what you wanted.

Or if you take an international flight to your country, they tell you, “There is no flight

available.”

Every day, a new restriction was imposed in my country.

By whose hand? By this mullah’s hand.

And now, you Pashtun of southern Pashtunkhwa,

in your own land, they drive nails into you, you have no right to live there. They tell you, don’t say the state is

not

better for me than the mullah.

I swear, if this mullah is better for you, brother, that state, that Punjabi, is better for you.

May God ruin us, may God make us illiterate, I swear to God, what do they expect?

What can we give the youth of Pashtunkhwa, Mullah Yar?

We have nothing now. I had a pilot, now I don't.

I had a doctor, now I don't.

I had a beauty parlor for women, now they don't let me run it.

If a young man and a beautiful girl choose to marry somewhere of their own free will,

he would send his wife to a beauty parlor.

Now we have nowhere for them to go.

Another thing, young people have no work. When a young man reaches 20 or 25,

he thinks to himself, “I should marry a girl.”

When I approach a young man in Afghanistan, whatever his age, and ask why he does not marry,

“Should I marry by taking a bullet, my queen?”

Fine, then who is the girl left for? A donkey like Mubin.

So she can become Mubin’s fourth wife. There is no school, no university.

What other hope is left for this girl? You tell me.

Tell me about Afghanistan’s future hope, that she has no university,

No school, no job for him. What hope does that young man have?

A 25-year-old flees to Iran. He flees his country for five

morsels of bread I earn for my children. The wife says, “Die by a bullet.”

Do you understand what I’m telling you?

Thank you, thank you.

These are heartfelt words.

Thank you. Ah, in my gestures and words of hope,

believe that in your feelings and

emotions, there is sincerity and truthfulness

that shows.

Nowadays,

it is very…

how should I put it, successful. Many people are not like this.

Many people

cannot speak powerfully, boldly, and frankly.

Because of so many compromises and political considerations, it appears—

Doctor Sahib, I had hoped that the youth of southern Pashtunkhwa would take pride in their homeland’s

flag, holding it high with their own hands.

And quickly put it up, put it up here, thank God.

Your own state has given you this much freedom.

Where in the country can’t you go? What difficulty do you have travelling throughout Pakistan

and getting around?

Don't you have jobs?

At least in Peshawar, Karachi, Dera, Malakand, everyone has their own tea.

By evening, one or two thousand kaldars are earned.

What should I do in Afghanistan?

One thousand rupees can be earned,

but two hundred Afghanis can't be earned, brother.

For example, in Kabul,

I swear to you, the Pashtuns who came from Pakhtunkhwa and the Afghans who came to Kabul,

I swear, when it gets cold, they go back to Pakistan. I'll show you in a video.

Shamshato Camp was much better for me, but here there is a spring.

Food can't be found.

In Shamshato Camp, food for one meal could be found,

but it can't be found there, brother. Which

one? No one tells you these things.

Who tells you those things, that in the state,

this

is done, that is done in the state. The state tells you, brother,

"He is a terrorist."

What do I have to do with terrorists, that I would even deal with them?

And your leaders understand the terrorists' language very well.

When they sell Masegar to one person, they sell Sari to another and build a country with it.

They do a very good job.

I swear, with your intelligence and how many ignorant people there are in your army,

it works, right?

Like these terrorist groups, they sell Sari to one, and Masegar to another, then

they make money from it, build their own country with it, and then give you jobs.

And while the Pakistani does the work, they keep you well fed.

The Pakistani has built roads for you.

Thank you, thank you. Mira and—Yousaf Noor— I have one more thing to say.

I used to say this to my fellow Afghans.

I told them, look, if we served America as slaves,

Pashtuns, I built schools for you. I built roads for you.

I showed you internet, chairs, tables, and stools through it.

I showed you.

Then I left you.

For 20 years, I served America as a slave and showed you this.

Fine, when the Taliban served as slaves, they brought a chair, a barrel, and a crack.

Mullah, what did slavery bring you? What should I do after becoming a slave? Even in slavery, you must

be an outsider, right? I tell the Pashtunkhwa youth in the streets that your

army serves everyone.

It is enslaved to everyone. I don't give a fuck.

They gave you a good life, they gave you a good life.

Then support your own, your, your own.

Otherwise, you'll be displaced like us. I swear to God, you'll be displaced.

Brother Yusuf, please, make your point— No, listen to me—not fake.

My Pashtun would have no dignity in that land.

Nor would my Tajik, Uzbek, or Hazara.

Then tomorrow, the Baloch would be disgraced too, and so would the

Sindhi, and the Pashtuns would be disgraced too in that land, if you

did not have this government.

If you did not have this government, I swear to God, then this

would be the case.