Fateful muteness
Posted on 11 months ago
Don't they too need to be tackled and decimated by the US-led NATO forces and their Afghan allies? Or, is it kosher for those thugs to stay on there undisturbed, crawl out from their Afghan lairs again and again and keep attacking and slaughtering brutally the Pakistani civilians and soldiers? Or, are the Pakistani victims of their thuggery the children of a lesser god who could be beheaded and maimed with impunity, rather blithely? Or is that it is only the American blood that counts for all and the Pakistani blood counts not even for a dime?
Aren't these groups, too, a grave security threat to the people of Pakistan as well as the Pakistani state? Who indeed is patronising and manipulating these groups and for what? Fazlullah was just a small-time cleric and a man of no means. Yet when he surfaced in Swat after years of mysterious disappearance in Afghanistan where he had gone on the head of thousands of raw Swati youths — whom he abandoned there later — to fight on the Afghan Taliban's side against the US-led Invaders, he was wallowing in wealth.
And when he threw the armed challenge to the Pakistani state, he showed no dearth of money, arms and hired guns. So fabulously was he enriched and reinforced clandestinely all through that it took the Pakistan army quite a tough fighting to quash him and dismantle his terror infrastructure. No problem either was it evidently for him and his hundreds of fleeing brigands to seek refuge in Afghanistan and hole up in safe havens in its Kunar and Nuristan regions bordering Pakistan.
So, who is on his back? Surely, the kind of terror infrastructure he is presently sitting on is beyond the pale of private contributors to raise. It could only be the handiwork of state involvement, local or foreign. Nor could it escape the eye of the multi-layered surveillance systems of the US-led occupiers of Afghanistan. Whose proxy is, then, Fazlullah? Who tasks him to launch murderous attacks on Pakistani border posts and civilian villages and give him money and weapons for these murder missions?
And whose pawn is Maulvi Faqir Mohammad? He too displayed enormous wealth and mounds of lethal weaponry, not within the means of even a mighty warlord, when he raised the banner of revolt against the Pakistani state in Bajaur Agency. Isn't it intriguing, too, that as the Pakistani military moved in to quell his revolt, the US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan inexplicably vacated all their border posts in the vicinity, leaving the border all open for flow of arms and infiltrators from Afghanistan into Bajaur to reinforce Faqir's fighting thugs? When vanquished, he also made it to Afghanistan where is holed up safely in sanctuaries along with his fighter rumps.
But what is mind-bogglingly perplexing is why are the hierarchs of Pakistan so shy of speaking out these home truths. Is there no one in Islamabad to remind Hillary Clinton again and again that Pakistani militants are conspiratorially embedded in Afghanistan and asking her who is harbouring these thugs so safely in their Afghan sanctuaries? Is it written in the scriptures that the Pakistani establishment has perpetually to be in a state of fateful muteness, even when the facts are too compelling, and continue to be pilloried by aliens even on surmises and ruses?
Does anyone in Islamabad have an idea how this foolish idiosyncrasy of the establishment is hurting the interests, image and dignity of Pakistan and its people globally? For its muteness, nobody out there in the world is any much aware if any Pakistani militants are holed up in Afghanistan from where they frequently launch attacks on Pakistani civilians and soldiers right inside the Pakistani territory. And for all the shrill noises of the American warlords and their Afghan puppets, all that the world knows is that Afghan Taliban have their safe havens in Pakistan's tribal areas. For how long will this Pakistani establishment keep crawling where it should not even bend?
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