By Ehsan Arab
It was the middle of the night. Innocent people, women, men, children, and the elderly were peacefully asleep. They had placed their heads on their pillows with the intention of waking for Suhoor and fasting the next day of the blessed month of Ramadan.
Then the militias of the Pakistani regime, with hearts harder than stone, launched an airstrike on their homes. By the time it was over, many people had been martyred.
The first images that emerged were difficult to look at. The lifeless bodies of children could be seen. Religious books and sacred copies of the Holy Qur’an had been burned and completely destroyed in the fire of bombs dropped by the Pakistani regime.
These scenes were not unfamiliar. For more than two years, the Islamic Ummah has witnessed similar scenes in Gaza. There, no mercy is shown to women or children. Even the sacred symbols of Islam, including mosques, religious schools (Madrasas), and the Noble Qur’an itself, are deliberately targeted and destroyed.
The Pakistani regime has followed in the footsteps of the Zionist regime and adopted the same inhumane policies. This is not the first time it has targeted women and children. In previous phases as well, it has carried out similar shameful and degrading acts.
There is, however, a fundamental difference between the Zionist regime and Pakistan. One commits its crimes openly and in its true form. The other presents itself as an Islamic country while hiding behind Islamic slogans and serving the interests of the non-Muslim world by implementing their demands.
For this reason, we should not be deceived by its empty slogans. While raising slogans in support of Gaza and the Mujahideen of Hamas, the regime sat beside Benjamin Netanyahu, the butcher of Gaza’s innocent people, and signed an agreement to join Donald Trump’s peace delegation.
Joining this delegation, which under the name of peace represents a new plan to suppress Palestinian resistance and serve the Zionists, has effectively placed the Pakistani regime among the traitors of the Ummah.
Furthermore, the regime has repeatedly praised Trump. Only a few days ago, the Prime Minister of Pakistan described Trump as the savior of South Asia. Yet after Netanyahu, and in some respects even more than him, Trump has played a major role in supporting the genocide in Gaza. Billions of dollars have been spent in this effort. He continues to stand alongside Netanyahu in advancing the seizure of occupied Palestinian territories and the oppression of their people.
This regime claims to love Islam and support the Islamic Ummah. In practice, however, it has become a tool for implementing the objectives of disbelief.
Just as the Zionist regime in Gaza attempts to destroy Islamic symbols by bombing mosques and religious institutions, the Pakistani regime carried out attacks in the middle of the blessed month of Ramadan by striking homes and religious sites on Afghan soil and repeating the same crime.
These actions are not only oppressive but also a clear insult to the sacred symbols of God. They show that the hearts of these rulers have become harder than stone and that they have no mercy or compassion for the blood of Muslims.
This betrayal is not limited to the borders of Afghanistan. By joining Trump’s peace initiative, which in reality aims to consolidate occupation and suppress Palestinian resistance, the Pakistani regime has formally stood alongside the killers of Gaza’s children.
While Muslims around the world shed tears and raise their voices in support of Gaza, this regime signed agreements that bring no benefit to Palestine and assisted Netanyahu and Trump in advancing their harmful plans.
This duplicity and hypocrisy further awaken the Islamic Ummah and warn it not to be deceived by the empty slogans of such opportunistic rulers.
A government that outwardly claims to defend the Noble Qur’an and the Muslims but inwardly joins hands with the enemies of Islam and stains Muslim women and children with blood cannot conceal its reality forever.
In conclusion, these ongoing crimes from Gaza to Afghanistan carry a clear message. The enemies of Islam, whether Zionists or those who serve them while presenting themselves in Islamic form, are united in a common objective, which is the destruction of the signs of the faith and the killing of innocent human beings.