President Ghani in the last two years used all means to reach out to Pakistan and Pakistan. Even he put his own credibility in line and blamed inside Afghanistan that he went too far. But unfortunately, in return, Pakistan have stepped up support of terrorist groups to destabilize Afghanistan and thousands of Afghans lost their life.

When you lose argument, you indulge in fighting to distract people attention from the real problems. Afghanistan is victim of terrorism for decades and tens of thousands of innocent Afghans have lost their precious life. If we look to the reality, harboring terrorists leaders were not in the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan but they were and are in the bustling cities of Pakistan. It is fact that three top leaders of terrorists groups Bin Laden, Mulla Omar and Mulla Mansoor plus numerous other top world terrorists were captured and killed in Pakistani cities.

Unfortunately during this month of Ramadan, Pakistan government trying to change reality by false argument of border management to provoke unnecessary fighting in Torkham area between Afghanistan and Pakistan in which several people were killed from both sides. If there is a problem in that area, they have to solve these problems through diplomatic channels not through armed fighting. If the argument is Afghanistan is weaker and Pakistani military is stronger and they can achieve their strategic goals by force, it is false hoping because Afghans are in war for decades with regular armies and defeated them badly. Afghans are in war and nothing will lose but Pakistan will lose a lot.
No doubt that people of Pakistan are also victims of wrong policies of their own government. A Peaceful Afghanistan is not threat to Pakistan and it will never be a threat to Pakistan but unstable Afghanistan will be a serious threat to Pakistan and the region. Using terrorist groups by Pakistan as strategic assets not helping any country except only few who benefit from war economy of drug trafficking, illegal mining, ransom and so on.
I believe it is in the interest of both countries to cooperate, solve their problems through diplomatic channels and Pakistan should not support terrorists groups and nor use them as strategic assets. It is known fact that Pakistan support and harboring terrorist groups and cannot change facts by diverting attention to unnecessary skirmishes in Torkham area by the name of border management. As long as Pakistan’s talk to talk not matching walk to walk, Afghans and world community won’t believe Pakistan argument and Pakistan will be isolated from the world community day by day.

View expressed in this article are of the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Pajhwok’s editorial policy.

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