Washington DC: April 24, 2017. (By Ahmar Mustikhan, WASHINGTON DC Bureau Chief) In the aftermath of the Taliban attack Friday on an army base in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Balkh province, that killed 100 Afghans, mostly soldiers of the nascent Afghan army, a number of Pashtun and Afghan scholars appealed to the Yale University, the School of Management at Yale and the Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University to cancel the talk by former Pakistan dictator, Pinochet of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, scheduled to take place Monday afternoon. The Pashtun and Afghan scholars in their joint missive to Yale University said the invite to Musharraf has become even more disconcerting after the Taliban attack as Gen Musharraf had openly and rather proudly said his military regime supported the Taliban against Afghanistan. Pakistan's CIA, the Inter Services Intelligence, spawned The Taliban, or students of religious seminaries, to take control of Afghanistan after the American CIA left the region following the demise of the Soviet Union. Under the one-eyed Mullah Omar Taliban misruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when Operation Enduring Freedom ended their regime. However, the Taliban resurfaced with the support of the Musharraf military regime. The joint missive of Pashtun and Afghan scholars was addressed to Professor Peter Salovey, A.B., ’86 Ph.D., President, Yale University; Professor Edward A. Snyder, Ph.D., Indra K. Nooyi Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management, Yale School of Management; and Professor James A. Levinsohn, Ph.D., Director, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Pakistan government and its omnipotent army that still supports the Taliban maintained a mysterious silence over Friday's terror that targeted the Afghan army 209th corp in Mazar-i-Sharif, while Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi was the first major world leader to condemn the attack and express solidarity with the people and government of Afghanistan. Following is the full text of Taqi, Yusufzai and Ashna appeal to the Yale University professors: "We, the undersigned, wish to express our grave concern over the invite extended by the Yale University to the former military dictator of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf to speak at the Yale School of Management on April 24, 2017. "As you are probably aware, Gen Musharraf had overthrown Pakistan's democratically elected government in October 1999 and seized power unconstitutionally. Not only did he trample over the constitutional rights of the Pakistani people, he also stoked the pyres of jihadist terrorism in the neighboring Afghanistan. General Musharraf has proudly told the media that he backed the Taliban and its deadly affiliate the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan when he headed the military junta as self-styled president of Pakistan. "Your invite becomes even more disconcerting as on Friday April 20th the Taliban conducted a deadly attack in Mazar-i-Sharif that left over 100 personnel of the nascent Afghan National Defense & Security Forces dead and several more wounded. "While we firmly believe in of our of free speech and freedom of academic expression, we are at loss to see how a reputable university offering a pulpit to a military bully who had banished two elected prime ministers of Pakistan into exile, serves such freedoms. The Yale University has ostensibly invited Gen Musharraf as someone who was a genuine Pakistani leader, which he has never been. In fact, Gen Musharraf is an absconder from law and there are pending treason charges against him in the highest court in Pakistan for abrogating the constitution. "In the interest of peace, democracy, and justice that the Yale University aims to inculcate as lifelong values and ideals among its alumni, we appeal to you to immediately rescind the invitation to Gen Pervez Musharraf. By rescinding the invite the Yale University, the School of Management and the Institute of Global Affairs will send a strong message to dictators all over the globe that the civilized world stands with the people who stood up against against dictatorships and not with the dictators who oppressed them." According to the New York Times, there was a shortage of coffins after Friday's attack. The report said more than 6,700 members of the Afghan security forces lost their lives in 2016, a record high that is nearly three times the total American casualties for the war. Those who signed the petition included, among others, Ahmad S. Hemmat of the Fletcher School of Law, Tuft University; Afghan feminist Habiba Ashna, Washington DC; Samim Arif, Fulbright Scholar; Ansar Faqiri, George Mason University; Wais Barakzai of Kardan University in Kabul; Ihsan Omarkhail; Najeeb Nangyal, Project Coordinator for Cooperation for Peace and Unity, Kabul; Umar Daud Khattak, Pashtunistan freedom activist, Kabul.