Islamabad, Aug. 2 -- In an interview with ANI, Abhinav Pandya, Founder and CEO of the Usanas Foundation, called the Pakistan Army's recent crackdown on peaceful Pashtun protesters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) "state terrorism" and "part of a decades-long policy to crush ethnic identity in the region for strategic gain."

"The violence we are seeing now is not new," said Pandya. "It's an extension of Pakistan's long-standing policy to silence Pashtun voices and erase their cultural identity. What the world is witnessing is state terrorism."

According to Pandya, the KPK region holds immense strategic value for Pakistan's military establishment. "This area has become a testing ground for Pakistan's covert operations. It's home to terrorist t...