We’ve been making people very angry lately. Not that I’d like to call Pakistan the bad guy in any scenario but lets face it, we need to acknowledge the fact that we’ve been seriously ticking off our neighbours lately.India and Pakistan have had a bitter relationship since the big breakup but the Mumbai attacks made things even worse. India keeps wanting us to hand over the bad guys, we keep asking them to handover the evidence and basically nothing gets done. Rehman Malik appears on our television screens looking frazzled but trying very hard to keep a calm face while he insists that Pakistan is doing everything it can – obviously India doesn’t think so. In fact India is not even willing to resume peace talks with us – and why should it? Switch over to the other side and you’ve got angry Afghans asking us to stop facilitating the various Taliban factions. Afghanistan continues to accuse the ISI for aiding the Taliban and hence suicide attacks across the Durand Line are often blamed on ‘foreign elements’ – and we all know what they mean by that don’t we? Granted Pakistan needs to continue its hard work to wipe-out these militants but in these troubled times, showing a bit of compassion to the neighbour would be nice too…. We are still home to some 1.7 million Afghans aren’t we? And not that I’m trying to perpetuate this blame game. As if pacifying these two neighbours wasn’t enough, now we have now Iran too. Pakistan's (Iran accused) involvement in the bombing on Sunday, which killed more than 40 people. The statements given by Iran regarding the Jundallah group which it holds responsible, were followed by reaffirmations of good ties and brotherhood between the two nations – necessary sugar-coating or sincere understanding between the two nations? US continues to condemn everything going down and our innocent citizens keep dying day after day. No doubt our A-team comprising Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Rehman Malik and the rest are trying very hard to address everyone’s concerns but can’t our neighbours take China’s cool silent stance for a bit while we try and sort things out? Or would that be asking for too much – we are neighbours after all aren’t we?
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ReplyDeleteI am 100% agree with the fact that Iran should know our problems but all our neighbours are mean if one of their donkey dies they point fingers towards Pakistan.They never accept the birth of Pakistan and continously causing problems for us. Afghanis forgot the war days when they were settle in Pakistan.They are not our brothers its we who needs to be brother of each other otherwise no one will come to help us.Try to act like a nation and we should have to strengthen ourselves.
Reality bites, doesn’t it? Reap the wind, sow the whirlwind (or something like that). Pakistan has been ticking off its neighbors one by one, starting with India, then Afghanistan, Bangladesh (estwhile E. Pakistan), and now Iran. The question is, who next? China? Pakistani rulers would not dare. They are your only “friends” in this vindictive world, whatever their true motives may be. Luckily for Sri lanka, Bhutan and Nepal, they don’t share their borders with Pakistan otherwise they too would be complaining. The lowest common denominator in all these relationships is Pakistan. Perhaps it is time for the people (the average awaam) of Pakistan to introspect and ask hard questions, rather than keep blaming neighbors and others for their own, self-inflicted miseries.
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