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Does the visit of Pakistan’s military chief and DG ISI to Kabul, and how Pakistani media painted their visit pave ground for Afghan forces to chase militants on the other side of the Durand Line is a question whose urgency has been felt particularly?
Pakistan blamed Afghanistan for the Peshawar school attack—that where over hundred schoolchildren were cold-bloodedly killed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). What Pakistani media portrayed the picture is quite the other way round and its people started thinking as if it is Afghanistan that has outnumbering militant outfits, being thriving here, because its intelligence agencies and military establishment have been sheltering and training them for the past four decades.
Instead of clamping down on militancy seriously and making an honest confession before the parents who lost their flower-like children, General Raheel Sharif, and Rizwan Akhar—the DG ISI rushed to Kabul on the next day of Peshawar school carnage. It was something aimed at covering up military failure in containing its own engineered militancy, successfully. Their visit made Kabul a culprit in the eyes of Pakistani citizens. They forgot about who has been supporting militant organizations? This indeed was the cunning and smartest instance of blame-the-victim game. Pakistan, till date, cannot mention just a single example where an Afghan leader—religious, political or a military, has instigated jihad inside Pakistan, but yes Afghanistan could tell about over a hundred examples where Pakistan’s acting and retired military generals, ISI officials, religious and political leaders said the war in Afghanistan is jihad and instigated people to go and do jihad. Who is General Hamid Gul? Didn’t he order that Jalalabad should be stormed? Didn’t he say that fighting against Afghan government and foreign forces (who have come here under UN’s mandate) is a holy war? In such a situation who deserve the right of complaint? Afghanistan or Pakistan? Since Pakistan has sui generis right (this is what it believes) to interfere in Afghanistan, then the latter has also some rights and perhaps it is the police chief for southern Kandahar province, who exercised this right by ordering his forces to chase militants beyond the Durand Line. Lt. Gen. Abdul Raziq said Sunday that Pakistani militants attacked Afghan border forces when they were patrolling the area, from the other side of the line. He said the militants hideouts were located 100 meters from Pakistan’s security forces’ outposts. He also said the militants have erected tents close to Pakistani forces and they often attack Afghan forces. According to Abdul Raziq, Afghan forces destroyed their hideouts. If militants have been living in their hideouts under the very nose of Pakistan then what does its military operations indicate? Kabul has called on Islamabad umpteenth times that let’s have a joint mechanism and a joint military force against the common enemy—the militants, but the latter has always looked the other way. By looking the other way, Pakistan has not only created a hell of problems for Afghanistan but also for itself. The problem is when it’s being bite by its own strategic policy failures, it never hesitate in blaming Afghanistan for its troubles. It’s as if a man keeps a hydra at his very own home and when his children are being bite, he rushes out in agony towards the house of his neighbors, knocks at the door of his house madly and when the owner opens the door, the hydra-keeper madly asks the owner of the house that let me see if you have some snakes inside your home. When the hydra-keeper comes to know that his neighbor’s children have already been bitten by the snakes of others, does this innocent neighbor has the right to go and kill the hydra in the house of the mad man?