Pakistani workers' land of opportunity: Afghanistan?

[TheCongo]

That is why foreign embassies are attacked and market blasts kill and wound dozens of people at a time.

[کیش]

That is why foreign embassies are attacked and market blasts kill and wound dozens of people at a time.

Kabul isn't Kamdesh, or Zhari. It is relatively safe, theirs shootings in my neighborhood as well, doesn't mean you cant walk by.

[TheCongo]

lol @ tyrone.the kabul bank shooting was in jalalabad, where almost all the victims were security personnel, routine bomb blasts are usually rockets that injure a few people at a time if any. millions of refugees dont flock to cities with horrendous security problems. hence, people fled kabul in the early to mid 90s and began to come back in the late 90s and 2000s. so go ahead and tell us which humanitarian org u are working with and what u have against whites? i am guessing its a white guy who signs ur checks.

You are a fool out of touch with reality. The victims were majority Afghan workers. I am not disclosing any information. I am sorry my friend. Run along now. You have only yourself deceived.

[randolph85]

the last foreign embassy attack was like 2 years ago against the indian one. there was a market blast that targeted foreigners like 4 months back, before that umm nothing rings a bell. its almost like this congo fella wants kabul to be violent when its not lol

[randolph85]

You are a fool out of touch with reality. The victims were majority Afghan workers. I am not disclosing any information. I am sorry my friend. Run along now. You have only yourself deceived.

no...the majority were policemen who were collecting their checks as admitted by the government and by the taliban.

why wont u disclose any information? ashamed that a white man is signing ur checks? it seems like u are no different than any other contracted foreign worker in the country. up to no good and earning the big bucks.

[TheCongo]

no...the majority were policemen who were collecting their checks as admitted by the government and by the taliban.

why wont u disclose any information? ashamed that a white man is signing ur checks? it seems like u are no different than any other contracted foreign worker in the country. up to no good and earning the big bucks.

Do not believe everything you hear in the media for the majority of it is deceit. No white man is paying me. I am living a very menial life. My intentions are solely towards helping the Afghan people to prosper and campaigning for your people's fundamental rights and needs. I have done no harm. Harm has been done by the very people armed with bulldozers whom you defend and support. Harm can not come through charity and good works.
Refrain from falling prey to the whisperings of demons. You have already fallen into their trap. It is not easy to get out.

[randolph85]

yeah ur right, there are dozens of people dying daily in market blasts in kabul and the afghan media are not reporting it and no one ever talks about it. the only person who knows about all this is tyrese. best kept secret ever.

if what u are doing in afghanistan isnt evil, than u wouldnt have any problems telling us what u are doing there and who ur employer is. unless u tell us this info, u are no better than any other foreigner trying to make a quick buck in afghanistan.

[Toramana]

Pakistani Workers' Land Of Opportunity: Afghanistan?

by Quil Lawrence


A Pakistani worker labors on a machine in a factory in Kabul, producing boots for the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army. Higher wages and, in some cases, better security in Afghanistan have drawn workers from Pakistan.


May 18, 2011
It's not unusual for laborers the world over to cross borders, sometimes illegally, to find a safer environment and better wages. But it is strange when their land of opportunity is Afghanistan.

It may be a sign of economic and political instability in neighboring Pakistan that manual laborers are sneaking across into Afghanistan, where wages are double and, in some cases, security is better.

That level of desperation has many fearing that Pakistan may be holding on to stability just as tenuously as Afghanistan.

Day Laborers
Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul, is growing faster than the government can measure — mostly in the form of big concrete and brick buildings. But an increasing number of the laborers on the buildings aren't from there.

Enya Atullah, an Afghan working on the precarious fourth floor of a new building, says he knows Pakistani day laborers will do his job for less.

They've ruined our work, Atullah says in Pashto. He says he doesn't make enoughbecause he has to compete with Pakistani laborers, and he hopes the government will come up with a policy to stop them from coming into the country.
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Here you go.

A fundamental truth about most of humans even if tied by blood, territory, culture, values, etc. i.e., we humans can accommodate others as long as our minimum comfort level is not exceeded has been expressed here.


The guy who talked to the author of the article evidently was a Pashtun because he spoke Pashto. The other conjecture you can make is that the author deliberately quoted the labrourer to be a Pashtun to point to the too many illegal Pashtun immigrants from Pakistan. But that is unlikely because as a foreigner, the author had little reason or interest to do that.


Anyhow, coming to the topic, when many people were displayed in Swat operation in 2010 and took shelter in Peshawar plains, there was a glut of farm labourers from Swat working in tomato fields of Pabbi and Nowshera. The local labourers resented that complaining wages have been brought down by the non-local labourers and labour-market has been overcowded.


The same thing is happening here.


I have come accross many brothers from Afghanistan complaining that they were not treated well in Pukhtunkhwa or that Hayatbad etc. were developed through aid money primarily meant for displaced people from Afghanistan. There may be some element of truth in that but one should look carefully into the whole matter to be more correct.


The aid started flowing in 1981. In 1988, as the last Russian soldier left Afghanistan, it started drying down and by 1990-1991, it was almost extinguished. Against this, there were 3 millions displaced brothers in KPK, FATA, and Pashtun part of Baluchistan from 1980 to 1991. But by 1992, that number exceeded 5 millions (fall of Najib govt. displaced many more people). This situation (with 5 millions displaced people in KPK, FATA, Quetta) lasted for almost one and half decade from 1990 to at least 2006-2007 (without any aid). Even today, there are many brothers from Afghanistan in KPK and Quetta, which is their own home.

Now saying that KPK or FATA or Quetta exploited this to their advantage would be I think unfair. Moreover, it will also be irrational and unrealistic claiming that this could have gone smooth and very brotherly without any undesirable things happening. The above example is a case in point. Obviously, the guy interviewed is voicing a wider and deeper resentment.


This should not be made a point of division and those that jump on such opportunity to sow division between us MUST keep away. My purpose saying the above is not the invokation of any claims and counters but rather understanding the whole problem.


By interpreting it as above, I want to emphasize that Pashtuns should do something to avoid wars on their land as result of which they get displaced on their own land and face hardship and humuliation. Second we Pashtuns should also become realistic and understand that there could be no way displacement on such a large-scale could be smoother and nicer. Third we Pashtuns should focus on local development so we don't end up cheap labourer in one or another labour-market (e.g. Middle East, Karachi, etc.)

[khashayar]

Lol @ stop them from coming into the country. Hahaha. The irony.

[Pashtun_Ultranationalist]

This post confirms your Western racistic ideals have been shoved down your system polluting your mind, and degenerating your entire system. That is why you bend down so much to the white man.

Please explain to me then the Kabul bank shooting killing many dozens of Afghans, and routine bomb blasts whose victims are mostly Afghan. Kidnapping victims are also Afghan. In addition, small Afghan orphans and homeless are prey especially to having their organs cut out and sold on the black market. You are hiding in a dark and folly corner, fool.

May the Afghan people be saved from your lying treachery.

How do we bend down so much to the White man? While you guys Zulu Danced for their officers, we Pashtuns were one of the first to successfully expell the White man imperialists out of Afghan-Land.

However, I dont need a Black African to educate me on who the Afghan people should be friends with. Go worry about your Africa, not Afghanistan.