Why Taliban Is Mocking Pakistan With Viral 'Pants Parade' Videos? Hint: There's An India Link

Last Updated:October 17, 2025, 16:29 IST

After border clashes, Taliban mocked Pakistan with viral “Pants Parade” videos, reviving the painful “93,000” surrender memory from 1971.

Videos of Taliban fighters waving captured Pakistani uniforms and trousers were widely shared on social media.

A week after intense clashes along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, an uneasy truce has taken hold but now Islamabad is facing a digital war of humiliation by the Taliban. Viral videos of Taliban fighters waving captured Pakistani uniforms and trousers- mockingly dubbed the “Pants Parade"- have sparked a wave of memes on social media and have revived one of Pakistan’s most painful historical memories: the “93,000" surrender of 1971.

The flare-up between Islamabad and Kabul began when Pakistan reportedly carried out cross-border strikes inside Afghanistan, targeting hideouts of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group responsible for several deadly attacks in Pakistan. What Islamabad appeared to expect would be a swift, limited operation instead turned into days of intense firefights. The Taliban retaliated fiercely, claiming to have destroyed 20 Pakistani outposts and killed over 60 soldiers. Both sides accepted a ceasefire last week, mediated by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

How Taliban Is Using ‘Pants Parade’ To Mock Pakistan?

Soon after the fighting stopped, Taliban-linked accounts began sharing videos of fighters holding up Pakistani military trousers and uniforms, allegedly abandoned during retreats from border posts. Some clips showed Taliban men laughing and waving the garments as trophies- branding them “spoils of war." The mocking videos quickly went viral under the hashtag #93000, a biting reference to the 93,000 Pakistani soldiers who surrendered to Indian forces in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Afghan users began calling the viral trend the “93,000 Pants Ceremony 2.0," portraying it as a symbolic second surrender= this time not to India, but to Afghanistan.

For Pakistan’s military, “93,000" is a reference to December 16, 1971 when Pakistani Lt Gen A.A.K. Niazi signed the Instrument of Surrender in Dhaka before India’s Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, ending the Indo-Pak war and leading to the birth of Bangladesh. It remains the largest surrender since World War II.

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