Walid
Since the IEA’s return to power, Pakistan’s military regime has sensed that Afghanistan, after decades, now enjoys political stability and full internal security, something whose continuation permanently blocks any chance of interference in this land, and alongside that, it’s losing the support of its own proxy figures and groups too, because this homegrown government, risen up from its own people, is serving its own nation from within that same embrace.
Over the past five years, the leaders of the military regime and leading figures among Punjab’s wealthy class have chosen an anti-Afghan policy, both in thought and in practice, and have dumped the blame for all their own shortcomings and weak policies onto Afghanistan. On this point, Pakistan’s ordinary Muslim people understand well that the military regime is a hundred percent at fault and on the wrong path, that it’s made no effort at all for its own people and national interests for the sake of Western and American interests, and has instead tried to sow discord and division between these two Muslim nations, even though the historical and cultural ties between the two peoples are unbreakable.
Right now, inside Pakistan, the Baloch freedom fighters’ war, the TTP mujahideen’s struggle, propaganda for the PTM, protests by PTI’s supporters, and the terrorist activities and attacks of dozens of other groups or Pakistan’s own proxy groups, these are all things Pakistan first intended to use and turn against its neighbors. But the game later slipped out of its hands, and because it failed despite having hundreds of thousands of soldiers, technology, and resources, it shamelessly threw dust in the eyes of its own people and dumped the entire blame on Afghanistan, claiming all of this is organized there with the help of regional intelligence agencies, a claim that’s nothing new, and the world isn’t blind enough anymore to miss this two-faced game.
One important reason for a system’s survival and legitimacy is having roots among the people, and that support is what allows it to stand against great powers and preserve its identity, its land, and its existence as a nation. But the military regime lacks these qualities, it has neither the people’s support nor can it establish itself as an elected system to secure its own international legitimacy, it’s nothing but a company of military generals trading in their own people’s blood to please the West.
That’s exactly why, to divert Pakistan’s people’s attention and hide its own weaknesses, it shamelessly throws dust in their eyes and tries, with the help of its enslaved media and lying spokesmen, to turn Pakistan’s public attention away from the military regime’s own internal political problems, and in doing so, points the first finger of blame at Afghanistan, claiming its opponents are supplied there and then sent into Pakistan, which is, in truth, the military regime’s actual trade.
The truth is that the military regime forgets the IEA’s own pledge, that Afghan soil will never be used against any neighbor, nor will this land ever become a source of insecurity for others. On the contrary, it’s Pakistan alone that, through terrorism, violence, and interference in other countries’ affairs, has remained the cause of regional instability and fear among its neighbors, and the real nest producing terrorism.
