These days the talk of the two is the carnage in Kunar, Pakistan, the pullout of coalition forces, and the upcoming presidential polls. But Pakistan bombarded the talk and people’s attention diverted to what Islamabad said on Thursday. What Pakistan said, many of us realized that amid the talks and terror, reality feels to be missing.This also reveals how much Islamabad is a good player in hijacking the situation. Whenever there is some biggest terror incident inside Afghanistan that has the potential to bring all ethnic groups under one umbrella Pakistan tries to disturb it. When public anger was simmering against Pakistan over the Kunar carnage, Pakistan took some token steps to tame militants in FATA, and asked Kabul not to parry fleeing militants.
Pakistan called on Afghanistan to fend off Taliban militants from fleeing as a result of ongoing airstrikes in northwest tribal region from entering its territory. After the botched up peace talks, Pakistani jets pounded Taliban’s hideouts in North and South Waziristan. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said that as per international and bilateral understanding Afghanistan shouldn’t allow militants to enter into its territory to take refuge on its soil. After hearing this odd song, we remembered about a famous English proverb: To a jaundiced eye looks everything pale. Since Pakistan has been at this affair—sheltering the Taliban, eulogizing them the real heroes fighting against foreign troops, and telling its citizens that the Taliban still rule on 80 percent of Afghanistan, so now it thinks as if Afghanistan is also at such an affair with the Pakistani Taliban. But the reality is quite otherwise. Now it’s necessary to see at the difference.
Where are the Afghan Taliban? In Pakistan. Where are the Pakistani Taliban? In Pakistan. Then how Afghanistan could shelter them, train them and send them into Pakistan for sabotage. Besides that Tasnim Aslam said it on Thursday while Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali said on Friday that no military operation is underway in tribal areas. What does it show? It shows Pakistan is not going to launch any decisive military operation because Islamabad thinks the Taliban its greatest strategic assets. Now Kabul should lodge its complaint with Islamabad officially for asking why Islamabad has been just doing some cosmetic actions to hurl the dust into the eyes of the international community and also Afghanistan.
When there is no military operation underway in FATA, why did Islamabad called on Kabul not to let the fleeing militants to have shelter on Afghan soil. If Islamabad is really sincere in its peace efforts and weeding out militancy it should sign a cooperation and extradition treaty. Under the treaty Pakistan will have to give ultimatum to Afghan Taliban to leave Pakistan within 24 hours and then Afghan government will do the same if there is any Pakistani Taliban on Afghan soil. But Pakistan will never do it. Moreover, why Pakistan army couldn’t ban foreign elements who are moving freely at will, and unleash havoc in the Pashtun-land on both sides of the Durand Line where the tribesmen have been forced to make exodus. Why Pakistan’s security establishment opted for the use of jet fighters and bombing terrorist hideouts when already drones attacks are elimination terrorists with few collateral damages. In drone attacks the risks of civilian casualties are too few. Why its intelligence agents are suppressing the voices being raised in favor of drone strikes but in meantime why they gag the voices being raised against fighter jets that cause heavy civilian casualties and collateral damages. All these things make Pakistan’s war on terror quite murky and when it has no clear policy and standpoint it should think a hundred times before pointing its fingers at Kabul.
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