Many of you ask why is it okay to support Afghan Taliban and okay for Pakistan to interfere in Afghanistan? Good question. To answer this question you should go back to 16 October 1951, when Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was shot twice in the chest during a public meeting of the Muslim League at Company Bagh in Rawalpindi. The assassin was later identified as an Afghan intelligence operative named Saad Akbar Babrak who was rightfully killed. So you see, the question shouldnt be why is it okay for Pakistan to interfere in Afghanistan. The real question should be why hasnt Afghanistan grown up to be a mature country in the civilised world? They were quick to accept the ISIs help in creating, training and equipping the Mujaheddin to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Legally wouldnt that be interfering in Afghanistan as well? The Afghan Taliban were mainly created out of the remnants of the Mujaheddin. When the west abandon Pakistan and Iran with over 3 million refugees each, Afghanistan entered into a bitter civil war. Many of those fighting were those who had fought the Soviets and were not fighting each other for power. Read the story of Charlie Wilson (and better watch the movie). This quote should explain everything: Although Gust is happy that the Soviets are out of Afghanistan, he rightly bemoans that without a dedicated reconstruction effort, the place will become magnet for radical Islamic nuts. Charlie had previously resisted taking the meaning of Gusts story, maintaining that he was just a dumb Congressman from Texas; but after accomplishing so many great things with Gust, the parables significance sinks in. Charlie tries to score a fraction of the Congressional funding earmarked for the war effort and funnel it into reconstruction, only to be told that nobody cares about schools in Pakistan. (Thats how uninterested Wilsons colleagues are; they couldnt even get the name of the country right.) That being said, the past is the past. If Pakistan and Afghanistan are to live as civilised neighbours, both countries need to stop playing games. It was not Pakistan who started problems with Afghanistan, it was Afghanistans inability to accept Pakistan had been created, becoming home to the largest Pukthun population in the world. If these two countries are to live side-by-side, both countries need to work actively to end these groups. If Afghanistan thinks it can get away with training TTP and BLA, then think again. The support for the Afghan Taliban wont stop then, and once NATO does leave, you better hope youve trained those TTP and BLA dogs good, because one things for sure. Theres going to be a lot of payback to be done.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:20:52 +0000