Pakistan has always been advocating and pleading a single-line agenda that the peace and prosperity of the country is directly linked with the political and economic stability of Afghanistan
by Ali Sukhanver
Though rampant and haphazard butthings have been continuously passing through a process of change for the last many weeks, specifically with reference to the terrorist activities in Pakistan. The terrorists seem trying to open a new front against the security forces of Pakistan. The time chosen for this heinous activity seems connected with Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China. Till now, more than twenty soldiers and officers of Pakistan Army have sacrificed their lives in fighting against the terrorists; more than 45 terrorists have been killed.On 20thJanuary 2022, a bomb blast took lives of three innocent citizens and left twenty injuredin Lahore.Reports say that a 1.5 kilogram improvised explosive device was fixed in a motorcycle parked outside a bank in Anarkali area. The bomb exploded when the place was thronged with hundreds of people. Though someone claiming to be the spokespersonof the Baloch Nationalist Army, claimed responsibility for that cowardly attack but at the same time it was strongly condemned by two other Baloch leader Mehran Marri and Brahumdagh Bugti. Moreover the countries like United Arab Emirates, Iran, Turkey, United States and Bahrain also expressed their concerns on the incident but Pakistan’s nearest and closest neighbor India throughout remained in a state of silence just like a deep pool of stagnant water.
In a recent statement, thePakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid told the mediathat since 15th August 2021 the terrorist attacks have increased about 35 to 38 percent.15th August 2021 was the day when the Taliban came into rule in Afghanistan. The Interior Minister expressed his apprehensions that it all is the result of merger of some smaller terrorist groups already active in Afghanistan; certainly Indian Intelligence Agencies are behind this rise in terrorist activities in Pakistan. Before that the nefarious activities of these groups were hindered, hurdled rather obstructed by the US led foreign forces working in Afghanistan.After US’ action of saying good-bye to Afghan lands, the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and other terrorist organizations got a free hand to misuse these groups against Pakistan. Certainly the situation would soon come under control and things would be normalized but the question of interference from the neighboring countries like India and Afghanistan would remain a blob of shame and dishonor on their faces.
Pakistan has always been advocating and pleading a single-line agenda that the peace and prosperity of the country is directly linked with the political and economic stability of Afghanistan; and that is the basic reason that Pakistan has always tried its best to help out Afghanistan in every time of need. Presence of millions of Afghan refugees in Pakistan for more than three decades is the most evident proof of Pakistan’s sincerity to Afghanistan. It is also a fact that most of the past Afghan governments had a very clear-cut inclination towards India and almost all the past rulers there had been trying to blame and by-pass Pakistan in all political matters just to please India but at the same time it is also a fact that the people of Afghanistan always find Pakistan very close to their hearts. Certainly the planners sitting in India knew very well that this inclination of Afghan people towards Pakistan was harmful and injurious to their dreams and desires. That is why they spent a lot of their resources on supporting and patronizing all those groups of miscreants which rank terrorist activities as their profession. Even after Taliban’s coming into power and taking charge of the government, those groups are still actively striving for their bread and butter. Though the Taliban government is doing all possible to bring those groups back to the main national-stream but things would take time as Indian support to those groups is causing a lot of hindrance to the desired process.
The terrorists attacking Pakistan’s security forces are not ‘fatherless children’, they are not ‘misguided-missiles’; they have their mentors, their facilitators, their patrons, their god-fathers. For a long lasting peace in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, the international care-takers of peace will have to do something to chain down these ‘god-fathers’. It is also a notable point that the victory of Taliban would never be ‘digestible’ to the countries like India. Such countries would do all their best to distort the dreamed of peaceful and prosperous face of Afghanistan. If a check is not put on such countries, situation in Afghanistan may get worsen soon. The hazardous impacts of terrorism never remain limited to some specific or particular area. Terrorism is always like a pandemic, always mysteriously boundless and superstitiously fathomless. With reference to the new wave of terrorism in Pakistan, some analysts are pointing their fingers towards Iran too but that suspicion seems illogical and baseless as Iran and Pakistan have never been involved in any type of conflicting issues. However most of the people in Pakistan are convinced that growing Pak-China relations could be a reason of heart-burning of those who feel this closeness as a threat to their existence.
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