Ghiyath al-Din Ghori
In order to hide its own insecurity and domestic problems, and to shift the blame for these problems onto others, Pakistan’s regime has several times targeted civilians and residential areas in Afghanistan. The regime tries to paint Afghanistan as the cause of insecurity and disorder inside its own country. But in reality, the country’s economic, security, and social problems, along with its other troubles, are the result of the regime’s own failed policies. This kind of approach can’t become an effective solution for resolving Pakistan’s domestic problems or improving the security situation.
Pakistan’s ruling regime has several times carried out airstrikes on ordinary Afghan people under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
To evaluate this regime’s claims, it’s necessary first to look into the real causes behind the emergence and growth of armed groups, and to make clear why these groups rose up against this country’s oppressive government and turned to armed struggle. Isn’t it obvious to everyone that these groups and tribes rose up against their own government to obtain their rights and to fight the oppression and aggression being carried out against them by this very government?
One of the matters that needs to be seriously looked into is the failed and unacceptable approach of Pakistan’s regime. Since the day the IEA took power in Afghanistan, the people of this country live free from insecurity, oppression, and aggression, and under the protection of the Islamic system their lives, property, and honor are safe.
But this promise-breaking regime has repeatedly drawn up sinister plans to make Afghanistan insecure, and has tried to drag Afghanistan too into insecurity, problems, and wars, just like its own country. Over the past five years, with the aim of destroying the peace of the Afghan people, it has given shelter on its own soil to the Khawarij, to groups of mischief and corruption, and to similar groups, and has trained and prepared them for war against Afghanistan’s Islamic system.
This regime has chosen a path that, according to the well-known proverb, “the road you’re walking on leads to Turkestan.”
For this reason, the people of Pakistan should recognize this truth: that this regime, in pursuit of its own sinister goals and the goals of the enemies of Islam, has deprived its own people of rights and privileges, and is thinking only of clinging to its own despotic rule.
If this regime’s goal were really the establishment of security for Pakistan’s people, then it should be asked, why, despite so many military operations, does insecurity still continue? Why are attacks by armed groups in Pakistan increasing day by day, and why are they counted among this country’s major security concerns? And don’t the foreign and security policies of the past several decades also need to be reviewed?
The economy too is affected by this situation. Insecurity reduces investment, increases state spending, disrupts trade, and limits job opportunities. A country that needs economic growth and job opportunities for millions of its young people needs, more than anything, stability, healthy economic relations with neighboring countries, and a reduction of regional tensions.
On the other hand, Afghanistan too suffers harm from this insecurity, and the people living on both sides of the Durand Line are the main victims of these ongoing tensions.
Once again we stress that if Pakistan really wants to bring its domestic insecurity and problems to an end, it must adopt a comprehensive approach and abandon its failed policies. No country can export its domestic problems beyond its own borders and, in this way, free itself forever from being answerable to its own people.
Domestic insecurity, economic problems, and political crises need domestic solutions and real reforms; attacks on a neighboring country can’t take the place of these solutions. Our region needs cooperation, not the kind of rivalry that creates insecurity. Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the other countries of the region can, through dialogue and cooperation, create the ground for trade, security, and development. But as long as violence is used as a tool for resolving disputes, the main victims will be ordinary people.
We say this to the people of Pakistan: for real security to take hold in this country, this regime must fundamentally change its failed and misguided policies toward its own people and neighboring countries..
