On May 19, the aggressor’s propaganda announced the arrival of a “Pakistani delegation” to occupied Crimea, which included “Awami Pakistan Party” leader senator Aimal Wali Khan, senator Farooq Umar, senator’s aide Shah Said Abid, and the director of the “Pashtun Center”, Muhammad Naveed.”
This show, predictably, was purely provocative in nature – the occupied peninsula offers no economic or humanitarian “common ground.”
Therefore, beyond photo ops with Gauleiters Sergei Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov, as well as a “tourist program” with claims about some hypothetical “Pakistani students at Crimean universities in the future,” the aggressor’s propaganda had nothing to offer.
It’s worth noting that the main talking head of this provocation, Aimal Wali Khan, has long been facilitating events initiated by Russian intelligence agencies, calling himself the “head of the interparliamentary committee on Russian-Pakistani friendship.”
Specifically, a year ago, at the Voronezh forum “Anticyclone-2025,” where Russian intelligence agencies brought together all sorts of political freaks from a number of countries, Wali Khan directly justified Russian aggression and called for the lifting of sanctions against Russia.
The “Awami National Party” itself is a long-standing family project for the Khan clan.
It was previously led by the father of the current “Russophile,” Asfandyar Wali Khan, and even earlier by his grandfather, Abdul Wali Khan, the son of leftist politician Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
The party was founded in 1956, but by 1965 it had split, with the aforementioned Abdul Wali Khan leading its pro-Soviet clone.
The party reflects a leftist ideology and is effectively Pashtun in its national character, yet it is in constant conflict with more influential Pashtun political forces in Pakistan.
Moreover, the “Awami National Party” failed to enter the lower house of the Pakistani parliament in 2024, garnering 1% of the vote. Previously, it had only one seat, and only until 2013 could it boast of having at least some members there.
Thus, the current “Pakistani delegation” consists of individuals representing neither the ruling nor influential opposition forces in Pakistan and represents a group of Russian agents in that country long exposed by the Kremlin.
