Pakistan is real problem in Afghanistan

Lately Internet is witness to an interesting campaign. But it is carried out through some very innocuous web sites. Its message: Pakistan and common Afghans are the real victims of foreign intervention in Afghanistan. The authors, all Pakistan writers, pop up the same, if not identical, arguments on the sites sponsored by Pak army and its proxies.

They also brazenly glorify Al-Qaeda leader Al-Jawahiri’s threats of wiping out additional 30,000 American troops due to arrive in Kabul.

Presenting a moving pen picture of Afghan children fighting for garbage on the streets of Pakistan, the authors aver that the real people are not Al-Qaeda or Taliban. “These real people want to lead a dignified life. What they need is not more troops but freedom from fear and fighting and health care and education”.

That is absolutely right. People want freedom, education, health, food, shelter and clothes. They want to live as equal citizens of the world but they are denied these genuine rights. And they are made “sacrificial goats” in the hands of the Taliban and their creator, the ISI.

No additional proof is required and the world knows how the Pakistan Army has created the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban justice system, based on their brand of Shariat, has no parallels in civilized world. Aren’t these Taliban who had destroyed schools, forced girls and women to stay within confines of their homes and convert hospitals into dumping grounds during their rule in Afghanistan?

One can see the replay of the Taleban administration and judicial system in the Swat and other areas of North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. Gen Zia-ul-Haq regime had handed over Afghanistan to these medieval ‘marauders’.

The current Pakistan Army leadership, which is effectively dictating terms to the new civil administration, has now unceremoniously surrendered the Malakand division of the NWFP to the Taliban. The results are fast manifesting themselves.

There is a suicide bombing in Peshawar soon after inking the Peace Accord to implement the Shariat. The Geo TV journalist Musa Khan was killed. The Chief of SAFMA, the SAARC Media Association, was beaten up. Nearly 13,000 schools in the area were already blasted. Many teachers were beaten up while the parents were forced to withdraw their girls from going to the schools.

Their Taliban counterpart in Afghanistan continues to impose their terror despite being on the run. It was the Taliban/Al-Qaeda orchestration of terror in the world, which brought the international force to Afghanistan to bring order back to the country. It is nearly eight years and they have not succeeded. How can then the weak Karzai administration and poorly equipped police be faulted for failure in tackling this daunting task.

The clear explanation is that the Al-Qaeda/Taleban leadership and fighters continued to find ‘safe sanctuaries’ in Pakistan’s FATA with open connivance and support of Pakistan security agencies. The clever double game played by the former Army Chief and President Parvez Musharraf allowed the Taliban/Al-Qaeda fighters criss-cross the porous border to launch their terrorist raids and then safely come back to their ‘safe houses’ guarded by the tribal warlords.

This policy of support of the Pakistan Army to the Taliban/Al-Qaeda and their associate fundamentalist and terrorist groups continued to play havoc in large parts of Afghanistan. While US and NATO forces are involved in fighting out these highly motivated medieval morons, countries like India have only been putting up developmental infrastructure like schools, hospitals and roads for better trade links. Instead of giving a supportive hand, the engineers and workers building such infrastructure are being kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, directed by Pakistani Army controllers.

American press confirmed evidence collected by the US agencies of Pak ISI involvement in the suicide attack against Indian embassy in Kabul in July last year. The recent coordinated attacks on government buildings in Kabul resemble Mumbai terrorist attack in November last, launched from Pakistan.

Yes, the common people of Afghanistan deserve a decent and dignified life, free from the Taliban/Al-Qaeda and myriads of their gun-totting terrorist groups wandering the streets implementing their brand of Shariat law. Pakistan and its Security Forces are the main problem and they cannot hide themselves under the cover of being a victim. What you create will ultimately come back and haunt you.

The world community is taking a serious view of the situation. The UN and many leading countries like the US, UK, Canada, Germany, etc. have appointed special envoys to review the situation and suggest measures as the people of all these countries are equally the victims of terrorism which has its origins in Pakistan.

Pakistan and its army have thus been put on notice but they do not seem to be taking note of it as yet.