Rafiq
Just like before, Pakistan’s military regime has once again violated Afghan soil and airspace, and Afghans are being martyred, all in the name of defending against its own lies and its own internal insecurity and crises, on nothing but the claim that these oppressed, unarmed Afghans are the cause of the insecurity and severe economic, security, and political crisis Pakistan is drowning in at home.
To close out this whole story of Afghans being the ones causing them harm, we sealed off the imaginary line, its gates and roads, we let the Afghan refugees living there come back to their own country, and every harsh condition of that neighborhood that worked against Afghans, they brought down on us and used as grounds for pressure and their own baseless claims. They said the roads were closed, that no attack had come at you from Afghanistan, so where exactly are these attacks on you coming from?
Several times before, just like today, alongside Kunar and Paktika, the same kind of aggression and brutality happened in Khost and Paktia too, killing hundreds of unarmed, innocent ordinary people, and martyring them. We pointed out this same regime’s blind judgment to them again then too, and we chose the path of patience. Internal insecurity and opposition are every country’s own internal problems, and the circles sitting at the top of this regime know exactly what causes them. They also know full well that the people fighting an armed struggle against them are people tied to the borders of an oppressive rule and an occupying state.
What’s interesting is that even the military leaders, provincial officials, and district officials of the opposition factions fighting Pakistan’s military regime have themselves declared that they are Pakistan’s own actual inhabitants. They shout back at them: “Why, when you’re losing on the battlefield against us, do you turn your blind rage on Afghans instead?”
Today is the day of reckoning for these blind bombings and baseless judgments. Testing your own rage and wounded pride against Afghans is the wrong call, one whose first costs will reach you through economic, trade, and competitive channels, but the harsher answer, the revenge, the reckoning, will come after that, and this time the political and military cost of it will fall on Pakistan’s military regime itself.
We’re not weak for pointing out your own shortcomings to you in moments of retaliation, call this instead a matter of our own neighborly right and our mercy toward Pakistan’s own people. Let this regime finally let go of the arrogance and coercion that keeps pushing it past the line. Every claim and accusation should be clarified through talks and other means of mediation, so that the wrong, baseless nature of your own judgment becomes something you actually understand and weigh.
But no!
Today, Afghans, alongside every kind of modern defense, are capable of both offense and response, and have the ability both to defend their own system and their people’s rights and, at the same time, to take up the path of retaliation and offense. The fact that we’re proposing the path of dialogue to you today is rooted in our own Afghan principle and foundation. We always give our enemy and our rival the first chance to talk; when that chance gets abused, we turn to the second option, offense and war, and at that point we no longer accept anyone’s words or language on the battlefield of weapons and war.
Still, going by the current situation, we can say the chance for talks and negotiations has run out. Instead of defense, we’re now pursuing a path of offense and retaliation, one whose future costs will make our enemy fully aware of the cost of its own recklessness and its own abuses. May the Lord (SWT) grant reward, the merit of martyrdom, and patience to all those who’ve lost financially, physically, and in every other way to this oppressive regime’s savage attacks, in place of what they’ve lost.
