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Claim: "Pakistan has discovered an ingenious new doctrine of counterterrorism: when decades of strategic adventurism return home carrying rifles, punish the medical students." "The attempted expulsion of Afghan students from Pakistani universities — including twenty MBBS students at Lahore’s King Edward Medical University — is not merely bureaucratic cruelty. It is political failure rendered in paperwork. A security establishment that spent decades treating militant Islamism as an instrument of regional strategy now behaves as though extremism descended from the Hindu Kush fully formed, unsponsored and conveniently foreign. The Afghan student studying anatomy in Lahore thus becomes an improbable defendant in a case whose real evidence lies in decades of state policy." "Into this atmosphere stepped Maryam Nawaz, Chief Minister of Punjab, declaring that Punjab faces a greater threat from neighboring provinces than from neighboring countries. The sentence is staggering in its recklessness. In a few words, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan cease to be constituent parts of a federation and become cartographic warnings — territories from which danger supposedly enters Punjab." "That is not merely careless rhetoric. It is the ethnicization of threat. When provinces identified overwhelmingly with Pashtun and Baloch populations are invoked as greater dangers than foreign states, geography becomes a proxy for people. The militant dissolves into the province; the province dissolves into ethnicity; and millions inherit suspicion by address, language and ancestry." "For the Chief Minister of Punjab to speak this way is not counterterrorism. It is provincial profiling with a motorcade, lending official dignity to the ugliest prejudice lurking beneath Pakistan’s security discourse: that Pashtuns and Baloch are not citizens whose regions have been devastated by war and coercion, but reservoirs of disorder from which Punjab must be protected." By Junaid Ahmad https://t.co/DbnSlvcANf

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