By Abdul Raziq Muzammil
Afghanistan lies at the heart of Asia. Because of its strategic location, its freedom-loving people, and its rich historical heritage, it holds a unique place in world history. The history of this land is not only the history of kings and wars. It is also the history of independence, resistance, endurance, and national identity. Throughout the centuries, powerful empires have tried to bring Afghanistan under their rule, but the determination of the Afghan people has denied them complete success. That truth is written across the pages of history.
Ancient history tells us that even the army of Alexander the Great met fierce resistance in this land. After him, wars continued under different rulers, but Afghanistan’s mountains, valleys, and people never abandoned their determination to live free. In the nineteenth century, Afghans made enormous sacrifices to defend their independence against the British Empire. In the end, Afghanistan preserved its freedom and secured its place as an independent state.
The Soviet invasion in the twentieth century also turned Afghanistan into the scene of a long and bitter war. Both sides paid a heavy price before the foreign forces finally withdrew. Later came the twenty-year war involving America and NATO, another period marked by fierce fighting and enormous human and economic losses.
The Afghan people have always defended their country’s independence and national dignity, but they have also sought peace, good relations with their neighbors, and mutual respect. History shows that every power that ignored the will of the Afghan people eventually found itself trapped in a long and difficult struggle. Anyone making decisions about Afghanistan should first understand the lessons of this country’s history. Past experience makes one thing clear. Mutual respect, political understanding, and peaceful solutions achieve far more than endless conflict.
History is a book of lessons. Those who learn from it avoid repeating old mistakes, while those who ignore it often find themselves reliving the same failures. Afghanistan stands as living proof of that truth. Throughout its long history, the Afghan people have resisted invading empires, occupying armies, and powerful aggressors. They have made great sacrifices to defend their honor, their independence, and their national identity.
Those experiences have taught Afghans that wars, pressure, and hardship do not last forever. What endures is faith, national resolve, and the determination to remain steadfast in the face of every military threat.
Over the past several months, Pakistan’s military regime has tried to shift its own security problems across the border by carrying out brutal airstrikes inside Afghanistan. That policy has not solved its problems. Instead, it has pushed relations between the two countries into deeper crisis, threatened regional stability, and exposed Pakistan’s own failures even more clearly.
On June 28, 2026, Pakistan’s military regime carried out airstrikes in the provinces of Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar, bombing residential areas. According to the spokesman of the IEA, Mawlawi Zabihullah Mujahid, thirty-six civilians, including women and children, were martyred, while another 163 were wounded.
This was not an isolated incident. On March 16, 2026, an attack on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul claimed the lives of more than 400 people. In February 2026, indiscriminate bombardment near the Durand Line killed dozens more civilians. During the first five months of 2026 alone, UNAMA recorded more than 750 civilian casualties resulting from Pakistani attacks.
If Pakistan’s military regime believes that bombs, missiles, and the killing of innocent civilians can break the will of the Afghan Mujahid nation, then it should read history once again. Force, violence, and the killing of innocent people have never changed the beliefs or determination of a nation. The Afghan people seek peace, but peace does not mean surrender. Every nation has the right to defend its country, its independence, and its land. Anyone who chooses to test Afghanistan by force should first learn the lessons of history, for this is a land with a long record of resistance against occupation, aggression, and oppression.
If Pakistan’s military regime truly wants security for its own country, it should look for solutions within its own borders instead of pursuing a policy of force against Afghanistan. Attacking another country’s territory does not solve problems. It creates greater instability, and in the end the fire burns Pakistan more than Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s military regime should understand that creating hostility between nations, fueling war, and sacrificing innocent civilians not only harms regional stability but also damages Pakistan’s standing in the world. The politics of force may last for a time, but the memory of nations lasts much longer. Every act of injustice is remembered by history.
If the military regime imagines that bombing Afghan homes, killing women and children, and turning the areas along the Durand Line into a battlefield will force the Afghan people to submit, it is living in an illusion. The Afghan people have endured far greater trials throughout their history, and every time they have emerged with their unity and determination intact.
The regime should also understand that by spilling the blood of innocent Afghans, targeting women and children, destroying homes, and bombing civilian communities, it will achieve none of its objectives. Nor will it satisfy the foreign masters whose approval it seeks. Those who build their policies on violence and bloodshed merely to please others are laying the foundations of their own political ruin. Every act of aggression against the Afghan people strengthens their resolve and further damages the regime’s credibility throughout the region and the wider world.
Using force against Afghans to satisfy foreign powers is neither an achievement nor a victory, and it is certainly not wise policy. It is a sign of dependence and of following someone else’s agenda. In the end, Pakistan’s military regime will come to understand that the IEA is not like the weak governments of the past that ignored Pakistan’s repeated acts of aggression. The IEA has made its position clear. While it gives priority to peace and dialogue, it will defend its sovereignty and protect its people with all its strength, and it will deliver a crushing response to anyone who attacks Afghan territory.
