By Ehsan
Two nights ago, the skies over Paktika, Paktia, and Kunar once again shook under the fire and bombardment of Pakistan’s military regime. The victims of that night’s attacks were neither soldiers nor men on the battlefield. They were farmers who had gone to their fields to earn an honest living and had returned home at night to rest, unaware that Pakistan’s criminal regime would rob them of their sleep, destroy their peace, and turn their homes into graveyards.
Among the victims were innocent children who had barely begun to experience life, mothers who wished for nothing more than peace and security for their families, and farmers whose calloused hands were their only means of earning a livelihood. Yet Pakistan’s regime places no value on any of these lives. In its brutal way of thinking, every person living on Afghan soil is seen as a target upon whom it can vent its deep-seated resentment.
The basic question is this: why does Pakistan’s regime always strike defenseless civilians? Why are children and farmers chosen instead of military forces? The answer can be summed up in a single word: resentment. Since the return of the IEA to power, the regime has lost every avenue of influence and activity inside Afghanistan. Its hands have been tied, and it can no longer pursue its old designs or play the role it once sought to play on this land.
It is this failure and humiliation that have driven it toward its most barbaric acts. In an attempt to prove that it can still inflict harm, it has turned its weapons against innocent people. These crimes are nothing more than the cries of a wounded and defeated regime, trying to conceal its failure by shedding blood.
Today, Pakistan’s military regime resembles a wounded snake that no longer has the strength to confront a real opponent. Consumed by pain and helplessness, it strikes with its venom at anyone who happens to stand in its path, whether innocent children or defenseless farmers. This is not a sign of strength but of weakness and desperation. It knows it cannot stand against the iron resolve of the Afghan nation, so it tries to appear powerful by killing civilians and hiding its repeated failures. But these are the last desperate breaths of a failing regime, breaths that grow shorter with every crime it commits, drawing it ever closer to its own downfall.
History bears witness to one unchanging truth: oppression and crime have never endured forever. Every tyrant who stained his hands with the blood of innocent people has met nothing but disgrace and ruin in the end. If Pakistan’s regime possessed even a little wisdom and foresight, it would understand that these very crimes will one day return upon it and bring down its own foundations. As Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an:
وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ اللَّهَ غَافِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ الظَّالِمُونَ
“And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do.” (Qur’an 14:42)
This divine promise is a source of reassurance for the oppressed and a grave warning for the oppressors.
In the end, the people of Afghanistan understand that behind every crime committed by Pakistan’s regime lies deep-seated resentment and profound helplessness. That understanding will only strengthen their resolve to remain steadfast. They know that no matter how much venom this wounded snake releases, it will ultimately perish from its own poison and exhaustion. The blood of those martyred two nights ago will never be forgotten, and these crimes will stand as the final pages in the dark record of this regime, which history will remember as the vilest of neighbors and the heir to brutality.
