American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was termed by
some serious thinkers and intellectuals as the first step of the big
game planned to reach the atomic assets of Pakistan at the end. Such
cautions from people having the ideological belief, had very little
response particularly from the ruling secular elite of that time headed
by Musharraf, who lacked the courage to demonstrate resilience to the
American illicit pressure. The final goal of the Crusaders in Washington
was the dismantling of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals for which
Afghanistan was to be turned into a launching pad. The series of events
and recent developments give a clear indication towards that
direction. America’s top leadership, both civil and military, have been
seriously engaged during the past few weeks to demonize Pakistan’s armed
forces, specifically the ISI to be responsible for the attacks at the
heart of Kabul on the important American centres, including its embassy.
They have accused the ISI to be backing the Haqqani network which has
been incriminated to be responsible for these deadly attacks from North
Waziristan Agency of Pakistan.If we go back into the retrospect, we find
that Taliban were all prepared for dialogue on the Osama issue after
the 9/11 episode. America could have achieved its purpose of Osama’s
extradition through diplomatic channels and by using the good offices of
Pakistan. America turned down every peaceful offer Taliban were making
for the settlement of the Osama issue and launched her attack against
Afghanistan. Pakistani leadership took a U-turn and offered its full
support to America by providing all facilities of ground, air and sea to
the aggressor to haunt the empty handed Taliban in the name of ‘war on
terrorism’. Musharraf did all this for the sake of prolonging his
illegitimate rule with the American support. Some political parties
(calling themselves as leftists), a group of journalists and
intellectuals completely endorsed the American policies of aggression in
the region in the same way they had done when the USSR had attacked
Afghanistan in the early eighties. This group of journalists and
political intellectuals ran their media campaign so vigorously that
Pakistani rulers did not heed the least to review their newly-adopted
track under the American threat of, “With us or with the
enemy”. Dislodging the Taliban and haunting the so-called Afghan
insurgents, America grounded herself deeply in Afghanistan with all her
might aided by the NATO and other allied forces in addition to the
Northern alliance and Karzai’s puppet administration in Kabul. America
gave ample room to the Indian interference, both covert and overt, and
the Indian RAW took a glaring and active anti-Pakistan adventurism on
the Afghan soil in full connivance of American CIA. The sabotaging
activities in the country, particularly in the KPK, the naked aggression
against Pakistan on the vulnerable points through the border line and
the insurgency in Balochistan are good indicators to that situation. She
has been promoting the idea of terrifying the West and all the
anti-Islamic forces of the atomic weapons likely to fall into the hands
of terrorists. To travel through all her journey, America has discovered
very rightly that there are three very important hurdles in her way to
reach her final goal, the atomic assets of Pakistan. At the top there is
a very trained and disciplined army filled with the strength of deep
conviction (Eiman) which is a source of Unity, Discipline and Jehad, the
slogan of our armed forces. Second to the armed forces we have a world
top ranking intelligence agency the ISI. America and all the inimical
forces of this ideological country have joined hands in propagating a
very negative picture of these inevitable organs of the security of the
country. Through the media war, the Western media in general and that of
America in particular are busy in disseminating all types of
disinformation in order to undermine the credibility and prestige of our
armed forces and the ISI both. To make this notorious campaign more
effective and ambitious there are certain people within the country who
are aiding the efforts of these forces in exchange of dollars. These
include the so-called commentators and analysts who are trying to
attribute every evil and activities of terrorism to be the planning of
the security forces and the ISI. If one listens to the two programmes of
the VOA, the Pushto channel of the Dewa Radio and the Urdu programme
‘In the News’ (Aap Ki Duniya) one can easily conclude how the state-run
programmes are misleading the world about Pakistan. The Pushto programme
particularly promotes the hatred against the armed forces and also
accelerates the negative thinking already existing in the form of
provincialism and nationalism. These programmes are always attributing
all negative developments to the armed forces and those political
parties and groups which believe in the ideological structure of the
country. The third main hurdle in the way of the enemies of Pakistan is
the Tribal citizens of Pakistan, whom the Quaid-e-Azam had named as the
hands-and-arms of Pakistan. History is witness to the fact that the
present Azad Kashmir on the Pakistan side is a gift of these tribal
‘mujahids’ who had reclaimed it from the Hindus after partition. We also
know that during these six decades we did not need deployment of any
security forces on our western border since our tribal brethren were
manning these frontiers without any remuneration. They had proved their
worth as the unpaid, informal and traditional force with all their
capabilities of thwarting any untoward aggression from the west. During
the rein of the Islamic Emirate of the Taliban of Afghanistan our west
was safe to an exemplary standard. To create cracks in the solidarity
between our armed forces and the tribal Pakhtuns, America worked on the
multi-dimensional conspiracies and created a gulf between the two
organs, responsible for the security and solidarity of the country.
Through manipulation of the situation in these areas by importing
terrorism in the shape of Mullahs, saboteurs, suicidal bombers, target
killers, invisible Raymond Davis etc the most patriotic armed forces
were forced for confrontation against the ill-informed but undoubtedly
equally patriotic tribal Pakistanis. America has been struggling through
all this decade-long terrorist activities to widen the gulf between the
two important elements of strength and solidarity for Pakistan. She
seems to be successful to a great extent in her nefarious designs as is
evident from her threats of unilateral action on this soil if we do not
take up our sleeves against the Haqqani network, a nightmare for the
American generals and the civil administration in the White House.We
Pakistanis do remember that conspiracies against Mr. Z.A. Bhutto were
hatched by the Americans and he was murdered since he boldly denied
bowing before America on the issue of initiating the project for the
nuclear arsenals. How can the same America see the atomic assets in the
hands of Pakistan, considered by Israel and India as their arch enemy?
The troika consisting of America, Israel and India has perfected all its
offensive regarding reaching our nuclear installations. The network of
terrorists established by these forces have been carrying out all their
destructive activities in the mosques, funeral prayers, public places
and every where it finds a chance. It makes no difference if all such
terrorist acts are being carried out through the fugitives from Pakistan
drained out as a result of Army action or the ones purchased from the
Northern Alliance or more sophisticatedly trained the like of Raymond
Davis. We had been very categorically cautioned by the Iranian
President, Ahmadinejad in June this year that America has completely
drawn out its notorious plan of attacking our nuclear assets. He had
claimed to have this information through very authentic sources. Anyhow,
the Pakistani rulers did not take this note seriously. Attacks of
Abbottabad and on the PNS Mehran in Karachi were a test case and
probably a rehearsal for the purpose under reference. We should see
writing on the wall and seriously ponder over the situation since Obama
has already approved American attack on our nuclear assets. In a
complicated situation like this, the All Parties Conference convened on
Sept. 29th seems to be an important event showing solidarity of the
nation behind their armed forces for the defence of the country.
However, the message conveyed across the spectrum was very weak and it
did not mention even the name of America, who has created this dubious
situation for us. It seems like an FIR, in which the name of the accused
and the crime committed is missing. Under these uncertain
circumstances, we need to review our past policies viz-a-viz our
partnership with the US in the so-called war on terror. Some of the
suggestions are as follow.We should bring all the mutually agreed items
of action in a written memorandum prepared on the basis of equality as
is done between the two sovereign states. We should redefine clearly and
unambiguously all the elements of our engagement with US with clear
conditions specifying the limits to which we can go.The limits to which
both the parties can go should clearly be mentioned and the red lines
indicated very neatly and conspicuously which should not be transgressed
by any of the parties in all circumstances. The logistic facilities we
have given to the US and NATO must be recompensed specifically
mentioning every segment that is under use for the purpose.We should
have a clear commitment and guarantee of the US that India must remain
within the limits as far as her interference in the Afghan affairs are
conflicting to our interest.America should fully guarantee that there
will be no future armed incursion in our country as repeated many a time
during the past few months on the borders of Dir, Chitral and Bajaur
Agency. We should have a clear guarantee of the US Administration that
there will be no secret agents on our soil. We should also emphasize on
the Americans to take note of the activities of the Indian consulates
working on the soil occupied by the American occupation forces. Any
problem/issue arising between the two should be addressed through
dialogue and finding mutual solution rather than to resort to threats
and pressure.
By Muhammad Faheem (Frontier Post)
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