I strongly condemn the attack on the Rangers’ Headquarters in #Karachi and express my grief over the martyrdom of #Rangers personnel in this attack
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Posted on: 6/30/2026
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I strongly condemn the attack on the Rangers’ Headquarters in #Karachi and express my grief over the martyrdom of #Rangers personnel in this attack. However, I also strongly condemn Pakistan’s air strikes on civilian homes in the Afghan provinces of #Paktia, #Paktika, and #Kunar in response to this attack, and I express my sorrow over the deaths of innocent #Afghan women and children in these attacks.
These attacks on civilian in #Afghanistan will provide justification for a retaliatory response from Afghanistan against Pakistan and will further increase the severe tensions between the two countries, potentially pushing the situation towards war.
I strongly condemn the terrorist attack carried out on the Rangers’ Headquarters in Karachi. I believe that #Pakistan should have lodged a strong protest with Afghanistan over this attack and raised the matter at the United Nations and other international forums. If a retaliatory attack was deemed necessary, then it should have targeted Afghan military positions or military posts to settle the matter, so that civilian lives were not lost. Unfortunately, Pakistan carried out air strikes on civilian homes in Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens of innocent Afghan women and children. This is not only being stated by the Afghan government, but international media, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan,
the
Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan
are also reporting in their official statements that Pakistan’s air strikes killed 28 civilian women and children and injured 49 others. What harm had these innocent women and children done to anyone?
I, along with the MQM Coordination Committee and the Central Executive Committee, strongly condemn the terrorist attack on the Rangers’ Headquarters in Karachi. We express our deep sorrow over the martyrdom of Rangers personnel and extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of those who lost their lives. At the same time, we strongly condemn the air strikes carried out in Afghanistan, express our grief over the deaths of innocent women and children, and extend our sympathy and solidarity to our Afghan brothers.
In response to these air strikes in Afghanistan, there may also be attacks from Afghanistan, and if civilians become targets in such retaliatory attacks, then the responsibility will lie with those military officials and current rulers who ordered air strikes on civilian populations in Afghanistan.
I would like to say to the Government of Pakistan and the military authorities: if someone attacks your military bases or defence installations, you have every right to defend yourself and respond to those attacks. But for God’s sake, do not target civilian populations, residential buildings, and innocent women and children in retaliatory attacks.
I also say to the Afghan government that it should take action against those terrorist elements who come from Afghanistan and carry out attacks against Pakistan, or expel them from its territory.
Pakistan’s civilian and military authorities should think today about how those Afghans who were once your closest friends have now become your enemies. You involved Afghan people in the war against Russia in order to serve American interests and drive Russia out of Afghanistan; you provided them with military training, money, weapons, and every kind of support. In the name of jihad, you created militant organisations, recruited people from across Pakistan, and sent them to Afghanistan to fight against Russia.
After Russia’s withdrawal, a government of your own mujahideen was established in Afghanistan. Then you created the Taliban and supported them financially and militarily in every way. The Taliban government was established there. After providing so much support, you should have had a very good friendship with your Afghan brothers — but why did hostility emerge instead of friendship with the Afghan Taliban?
Today you say that you did great favours for #Afghans and helped them, while Afghans respond by asking: did they invite Pakistan’s rulers to come to #Afghanistan and help them?
Military authorities who are formulating a policy of conflict and confrontation with Afghanistan must keep in mind that the Taliban government in Afghanistan has entered into a defence agreement with Russia. Although such a defence agreement does not come into effect suddenly or overnight, Afghanistan will certainly benefit from this defence agreement in the near future, and this factor should not be ignored.
Addressing the people in authority, I say: You have been killing #Baloch people for decades by labelling them enemies of the state. You killed #Muhajirs, who sacrificed 2 million lives for the creation of #Pakistan, and you called them Indian agents. You killed #Pashtuns and called them traitors. You carried out crackdowns against those #Punjabis who support Imran Khan and labelled them enemies of the state as well.
Now only #Kashmiris were left; when they demanded their rights, they too have now become, in your eyes, traitors and enemies of the country. You are also killing them by labelling them Indian agents and traitors.
I say to Pakistan’s rulers and military leadership: for God’s sake, reconsider your policies. Do not push the people against the wall, and avoid such policies that will cause the people to move further away from you.
Altaf Hussain
Addressing the 425th emergency intellectual session on TikTok
30 June 2026
(Listen to the complete intellectual session  )
https://youtu.be/g-BQhNwHnEY?is=8xBLbYXWG5KEzjlm
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