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Joint Statement We, the undersigned, express deep concern over the growing loss of civilian lives, including women and children, caused by aerial bombardment by the Pakistan Air Force in populated areas of Afghanistan. We call on both sides to immediately bring the current armed conflict to an end. We regard this escalation as an undeclared war disproportionately affecting Pashtuns living on both sides of the Durand Line. It is deeply alarming that 99 percent of the victims of this conflict are Pashtuns. We further express serious concern that, without a clear shift in Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy the continuation of this war will further endanger civilian lives. We also note with concern that Parliament has been bypassed in decisions that have grave consequences for the people of the region. We wish to make it clear that the decades long extremism and terrorism that have claimed countless innocent lives are not products of indigenous society. There is ample evidence that these destructive forces were injected into our body politic through billions of dollars invested since the 1980s in building and sustaining an infrastructure of violence. For decades, Pashtuns have been demanding an end to Pakistan’s role as a so-called “front-line state,” the dismantling of great-power projects of violence in the region, and the beginning of peaceful, good neighborly relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. For us the fires of war in West Asia ignited by the imperialist invasion of Iran by US and Israel is deeply disturbing. We demand an immediate cessation of the hostilities of devastating attacks that apart from destroying the lives and properties of the people in the region, is also threatening world peace.