Following the increasing tensions over the security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the criticism of Maulana Fazl-ul-Rehman, the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Faisal Karim Kundi, the governor of this province, asked him to leave this country and join the Taliban if he was not satisfied with the government of Pakistan. Responding to the words of the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, this Pakistani cleric said that Afghanistan is the homeland of the Pashtuns and Afghans.