Pakistan now entangled in its own web
Hundreds of Afghans have been evacuated from Afghanistan and thousands are now hoping to flee from their motherland to safer places. Most are waiting outside the Kabul airport, which has become the most dangerous place in the region. Most of these people have been openly criticising Pakistan for their miseries.
Afghanis in general believe that Pakistan’s goal all along has been to keep Afghanistan weak , divided and needy so that they always remain under the control of Pakistan . The Government in Pakistan and the Pakistan Army has always tried to reduce the supposed influence and involvement of arch-rival, India . To achieve this , as per their strategy Pakis have always supported proxy terrorist forces in the entire region. Even China will realize this when Xinjiang starts burning .
Earlier Pakistan’s military establishment had offered the previous Afghan government several proposals to train the Afghan Army . The Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa himself had paid many visits but all the effort resulted only in six cadets coming to Pakistan Military Academy while Scores of cadets and hundreds of soldiers and officers were trained in India .
Therefore the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Babar Iftikhar, while lamenting at a press conference last Friday was perplexed to know as to why the Afghan people and army hate Pakistan so much. So as usual he tried to blame India by stating that “India poisoned the minds of the Afghan leadership, its intelligence agencies, as well as the army, thus giving rise to negative statements against Pakistan.” He then tried to explain how much Pakistan has done for the country and its people yet they have always been blamed for the Afghanistan mess. “Whatever has happened in Afghanistan, we need to understand the role of India. Whatever investments India made in Afghanistan; it was all done with the sole intention to harm Pakistan. They have no love lost for Afghan people or Afghanistan.”
However the previous Afghan governments, its armies, parliamentarians, media outlets and political commentators have been blaming the Pakistani army and its intelligence agencies for actively supporting and helping the Taliban and other militant outfits to capture the country by force creating an unprecedented human crisis.
Even Pakistan’s interior minister, Sheikh Rasheed, admitted that the families of Taliban members were living in Pakistan, and that the injured and dead fighters were brought to the country from Afghanistan.
However after the attack on Pakistan Army post in Bajore area by TTP , now the euphoria in the Pakistani Establishment is gone . The Taliban which is controlling Afghanistan now has given no about controlling Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan except for one general statement that Afghanistan’s soil will not be used against any country, including India.
According to Pakistani analysts, another problem is around the corner. After Taliban forms a proper Government , it is bound to raise the issue of the Pakistan and Afghanistan border – Durand Line. This line drawn by the British has never been accepted by any Government in Afghanistan ever since in last one hundred year . Taliban will also not do much to address Pakistan’s strategic concerns. Like previous Afghan governments, it has refused to recognise the Durand Line as an international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The former first Vice President and now Acting President Amrullah Saleh had made it clear to the Pakistani delegation that there won’t be any compromise on the Durand line.
“No Afghan politician of national stature can overlook the issue of Durand Line. It will condemn him or her in life & after life. It is an issue which needs discussions & resolution. Expecting us to gift it for free is unrealistic. Peshawar used to be the winter capital of Afg,” Saleh had tweeted.
Afghan Taliban’s Pakistan “arm” TTP has also declared that they are fighting for a greater Afghanistan.
“Our fight is only in Pakistan and we are at war with the Pakistani forces. We are firmly hoping to take control of Pakistani border regions and make them independent,” TTP supremo Noor Wali Mehsud said in a recent interview.
