Afghan Press Author: Rooh-ul-Amin

Bush’s errand boy Mr. Musharraf, who recently was hosting a supper party to retired army officials at Rawalpindi belched his venom that his policy of allying the US in its war on terror was rational, apt and pragmatic. Along that he tossed off the recipe to the new government that it must expedite the pace of military operations in the cancerous region (according to him) of FATA. Rasi jal gayi par bal nahi gaya—“a rope may burn out but would not give its twist”. This Urdu proverb deems fit on Mr. Musharraf, whose party and his henchmen were trounced by the masses of Pakistan in general elections 2008. Now that Mr. Musharraf is out of the corridors of power then he must prefer for hibernation instead whipping the masses, especially those living in FATA. They are the sufferers not for their own faults, but because of your sagging policy. FATA is the same chunk of population which was considered the most faithful and lover of this land of Pakistan but now because of your wrong step it went against this land and turned adversary for its own Army. If there is no concrete idea for its solution then there must be a halt to such hurting words.

Already dooms day has befallen on tribals, wherein the more they try to curb this evil, the more it surges, the more they cry for help the more it drowns them. For on one hand the belligerent America has labeled FATA (a clear indication towards Pukhtoons) bitterest enemy to its interest than Al-Qaida and on the other its leadership (Asfandyar Wali) has sought a den at Islamabad to hide in.

Barak Obama, the would-be president of the US has also declared this land of FATA, the most dangerous on the surface of the globe and you also. So what is the difference between you and Obama.

Then why the FATA residents hearing these venomous and heart-rending sentences from that Mr. Musharraf, who kept Pakistan at the feet of US with just a threat-call from the former US Secretary for Sate Colin Powell.

What was that threat-call? It was nothing but just a repetition of villain uncle Bush’s dialogue when he threatened the world peace (in reality only a few countries including Pakistan) that “either with us or with our enemy”.

Huh! Mr. Musharraf you must have told them if you cannot tow out us from the stone-age then don’t menace such a nation who is already living in stone-age.

Though after getting their target, Colin Powell denied that he has threatened Pakistan with such a call.

But never ever connote it with American cowardice but take it as the keeping of Monroe doctrine so that they can show the world community that Americans are how much civilised for keeping his doctrine of—“don’t interrupt and don’t let others to interrupt you, for this is the civilised way of life”. But if today even President Monroe were alive he would have changed the order of his doctrine with such an order “interrupt but don’t let others to interrupt you, for this is the bold way of life” especially in the pursuit of oil—not Al-Qaida or Taliban.

And I think the US is inspired with the later order. This is the reason it is poking its nose across the globe, if not exaggeration. But interrupting its path is far more hazardous, even one cannot think to advise this turn-headed elephant.

Musharraf, if your policy was pragmatic then why the whole nation is damning you and today the policymakers are baffling in dowsing the fire you have brought to this land. Though you proved that it’s also your land by not escaping to foreign shelter, or it may be because there was no shelter in world community for a person like you. And willy-nilly you have to stay here in this troubled land.

Can you explain it why you brought this fire to your own land, if you can then a bereaved mother of the two unfortunate sons who lost her nascent buds in Bajaur, is asking you? Her elder son inspired with the couplet of Allama Iqbal

“ Shaheed ki jo maut he wo Qaum ki hayat he”—the death of a martyr is the life of nation—opted for joining army.

On the other hand her younger son, a student of 9th class inspired with religious and emotional appeals thus joined hands with a religious faction and blew himself up at the heart of a military convey and mutilated no less than a dozen soldiers including his elder brother. When the bloodstained dead body of her elder son shrouded in khaki uniform and her younker son’s head sans his body were kept before their mother, the pathetic moment of her life resulted at her insanity. Now her insanity is moaning, screeching and asking for the answer. The reality is, it is because of your reeking policy. Brother turned into enmy to brother. He is bleeding his brother but senselessly that is all the outcome of your step taken in a wrong direction. This is why it is said that a mistake can destroy a nation. Thus your mistake has destroyed your nation cap-a-pie.

Your land had the pride of hosting more than 3 million Afghan refugees for no less than 30-year but it went into futility within a blink of eye. And today your western frontier is the most prone for terror. In this direction, only a week the police nabbed 30 Uzbaks with two other tribals from Pkistan who were likely to fabricate a bomb explosion.

A few days back one of my friends called me from Afghanistan that it is your turn. And indeed every one is observing that it is our turn. Why, because you had provided air bases for US forces in Budbhair Peshwar wherefrom the US aircrafts sprayed the entire Afghanistan with fire. No doubt India had already offered America for such service, with no exemption of the former Soviet States. But at least you must have not accepted this stigma.

What was the crime of that bride whose bridegroom was taken away on his wedlock night by the local Taliban in Urozgan province in imputation for spying to enemy? After two days his decapitated head was found in the ruins of the environs. The same day the US troops treated the land of that village and took away the bride in charge with providing shelter for the Al-Qaida activists.

She was kept in a torture cell where she was bludgeoned to mental disorder.

What was the crime of that innocent 7-year old child whose father was killed by the local Taliban in indict with spying for enemy forces, just three days before the air raid of US forces, who sprayed his house with fire in arraign with providing a den for Usama and Co?

The child survived the air strike but lost his leg, his only source of consolation—his mother, with his four sisters. No country could dare to snub the US in the recently held UN Security Council meeting that why America has dragged third world counties into a hell of afflictions. And no human rights organizations agitated against it but sadly these incidents went unnoticed.

The writer is a FATA-based freelance journalist.