Two months back, an Afghan soldier shot dead four French soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to train them. The unarmed victims got killed at the spot that made former French president to cry out and rush to Afghanistan and announce immediate drawdown.
If this entire incident is understood in the local dialect, it says: the French government says good bye to training and UN mandate and does not want poke its nose in others affairs. Now France is creating a great brouhaha over the killing of a few soldiers. The soldiers are there to fight. If they kill others, they win appreciation and if others kill them, why is there hue and cry? The entire French Government is making a noise over the death of just a few soldiers. Where is the NATO alliance and where is the terror war commitment?
The soldiers are soldiers no matter which country they belong to. This is a good parameter that if their soldiers die, they start lamentation and express grief, and if not one or two, but a dozen of Pakistan troops die, or rather killed, everyone assumes silence. They completely tighten their lips as if nothing has happened. This double standard has become a lesson for us to learn for both the Pakistani public as well as the rulers.
Following the 9/11, we jumped into the others’ war over nothing. Everyone was declared a member of either Al-Qa’ida or the Taliban. Our Army was unleashed by the United States and the west on our own people. The rest of the job was done by the drone attacks. Soon our soldiers were unsafe. Not one, but countless of them embraced martyrdom. The international community has never appreciated our sacrifices in terms of compensation. The US and other western nations continued berating Pakistan and insulting Pakistani nation. Then US deliberately killed 24 soldiers at Salala Check Post and there never came any apology.
Now see the condition of the public. There is shortage of electricity, gas and food items in Pakistan. The US provided aid and there is no denial. But it was just a peanut as compared to what Pakistan lost in terms of money, resources and lives. Most of the aid was paid back to the US trainers, US companies to purchase weapons to fight terror war and to repair roads left destroyed by the NATO containers. Now that the Parliament is there in place in Pakistan to decide about NATO supply and new tariffs, the US papers and officials are balking over the demand, saying that it is extortion. How is it extortion when Pakistan demands just transit fee for using roads and areas for last eleven years. No country came to rescue Pakistan during last four years when it suffered the worst suicide attacks and economic downturn.
However, we are very naïve people, for “we are expecting fidelity from those, who do not know its meaning”.
When you are overawed by somebody, and accept his supremacy, then what is justice and what is fairness. The recent measures taken by France should open our eyes. They have awakened over the death of only four soldiers. We should rather speak face to face to the US officials that we have rendered sacrifices more than 100 times than theirs and not for ourselves but for the US public to save them from Islamic extremism and Al-Qa’ida. They are not a threat to us. They are only a threat to the US and the US public. At least, 40,000 Pakistan lives perished for US public demand some sort of respect and honor,not insults from Panetta and other his cohorts.
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