Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Iran-Pakistan relations: The unpleasant truth

 

Pakistanis are used as cannon fodder in Irans proxy wars.

Most of the cannon fodder is brainwashed Pakistani Shittes.

Iran has never been a reliable friend of Pakistan in the last 45 years since the Satanic Mullas took power.

Iran has been pro India.

Remember Irans Chabahar port, remember Kulbushan Yadav, remember they never openly supported us on Kashmir ever.

Apart from that they have attempted to divide Pakistanis between sunni and shitte by paying and funding shitte movements. Once they are divided the groomed Shittes begin to hate their own neighbours and countryman and act in the interest of iran.

They have also used and abused poor Pakistani shittes ( the Pakistani shittes are also guilty for being stupid and treacherous as well).

The Zainebiyoun Brigade, also known as “Hezbollah Pakistan,” has recruited thousands of Shia men across Shia-populated areas in Pakistan to fight in Iran’s proxy wars in the Middle East. In a talk show on Pakistan’s GTV News, former senator Faisal Raza Abidi stated that “out of the 40,000 fighters from Hezbollah and [the] Zainebiyoun Brigade who have reached Jerusalem, 233 are Pakistani fighters from areas such as Parachinar [in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province]” (MinuteMirror, April 12, 2024). The Zainebiyoun Brigade has also recruited from other areas in Pakistan, such as Karachi, Gilgit, and Quetta (The Arab Weekly, September 16, 2018). Beyond ideology, Iran has offered the fighters a financial incentive in the form of a monthly salary of $500, nearly half of what most Pakistanis earn in a year (Arab News Pakistan, April 14, 2024; World Population Review, accessed March 15).

In a six-month period in 2018, the Zainebiyoun Brigade recruited more than 1,600 Pakistani Shia fighters. Moreover, a Pakistani intelligence report published in 2017 revealed that 4,000 Shia pilgrims who went to Iran between November 2016 and June 2017 never returned to Pakistan. Iran is known to have used Shia pilgrimages as a cover for recruiting Shia fighters from Pakistan, and as a result, these 4,000 individuals were suspected of having joined the Zainebiyoun Brigade (Pakistan Forward, October 5, 2018). Over the years, this has led Islamabad to crack down on returning Shia pilgrims from Iran and Iraq.

Pakistani officials have always had concerns about Shia extremism and especially the possibility of Iran’s Islamic Revolution being exported to Pakistan. Islamabad’s fears are justified by the activities of the militants and charity organizations linked to the Zainebiyoun Brigade in Pakistan. For instance, the Quetta-based Noor Foundation has been cited by Pakistan’s security forces as a front from which Iran conducted a number of subversive activities in Pakistan. Investigations revealed links between the Noor Foundation and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), alleging that the members of the Noor Foundation worked for the IRGC under the guise of charity work. The Noor Foundation had also been instrumental in promoting disaffection among Pakistani Shias, aiding the recruitment of fighters from these communities into the Zainebiyoun Brigade (Pakistan Forward, May 2, 2018).

Fighters linked with the Zainebiyoun Brigade have carried out operations in Pakistan and have been subsequently arrested. After Iran’s airstrikes on Pakistan and the subsequent retaliation from Pakistan in January 2024, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested a Zainebiyoun Brigade militant, Syed Mohammad Mehdi, who was suspected of having tried to assassinate a top Pakistani cleric, Mufti Taqi Usmani, in Karachi in 2019. Usmani, a leading religious scholar and former top court judge in Pakistan, narrowly escaped the assassination attempt (Iran International, January 22, 2024).

The attempt on Usmani was not a one-off event. For instance, in February 2021, the CTD arrested a Zainebiyoun Brigade militant, Syed Zakir Raza, who was on the CTD’s “most wanted” list. Raza had received military training from Iran, was involved in anti-Pakistani activities, and was a close associate of another infamous Zainebiyoun Brigade militant arrested a month before, Abbas Jafri (Business Recorder [Pakistan], February 2, 2021). In December 2020, the CTD arrested two other Zainebiyoun Brigade militants in Karachi in connection with a string of killings over the past six years (Arab News Pakistan, January 28, 2021).

We can go into more details.

But the question for Pakistanis is that why do we hate Israel when they have not done even 1% of the damage to our country that Iran has done.

When will Pakistanis learn to look at facts and objective material ?

When will the childish and emotional nonsense end for our people.