Written by: Abdullah Zahid
Pakistan’s army, which has repeatedly carried out blind bombardments on Afghan soil in violation of all international laws, has once again broken the ceasefire, violated Afghanistan’s territory, and brutally conducted airstrikes on civilians, martyring innocent Afghans, including women and children.
Since the emergence of the new government in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s interests have been at risk. Afghanistan is moving toward progress, the flames of war have died down, and this has sounded an alarm for the Pakistani military establishment whose mercenary-war business has stalled.
Pakistan’s army and its hired politicians have made great efforts to tarnish the image of the new Afghan government on the international stage and to portray it as a threat to the region. They constantly claim that Afghanistan poses a danger to them. Although these claims are baseless and mere accusations, there is evidence that Pakistan provides shelter to seditious groups and opponents of the Afghan government, has built military training centers for them, and systematically threatens the security of both Afghanistan and the region.
Pakistan’s army and intelligence agencies, which have recruited certain subservient politicians to serve their malicious objectives, are simultaneously entangled in conflict with their own people and political parties. Their profits and illicit incomes have been cut off; there are no more donors willing to fund their proxy wars. For the past four years, they have been trying to drag Afghans and the Afghan government into conflict again so that foreign invaders will be compelled to intervene militarily, enabling Pakistan’s military to act as spies and receive funding in return.
The Pakistani regime is also in conflict with its own people. The public has grown fed up with the army’s brutality, corruption, killings, subservience to the West, anti-Islamic actions, and its role in creating insecurity and waging Western wars. As a result, uprisings have emerged from within the Pakistani population, groups labeled as TTP, Baloch separatists, and others. The Pakistani army can no longer control them.
Controlling TTP and Baloch separatists is now beyond the capability of the Pakistani military regime. Instead, it accuses neighboring countries of supporting these armed groups, even though these movements originate from within Pakistan itself and arise in opposition to the army’s oppression. They have territories under their control within Pakistan and operate from there, yet Pakistan blames the Afghan government or other neighbors and insists these neighboring countries should control such groups and protect Pakistan’s security(!).
On the other hand, another front of sedition, the imaginary resistance front, which, in addition to its Western masters, has also earned the patronage of the Pakistani army, has remained completely silent about the recent atrocities of the Pakistani regime, its aggression against Afghan soil, and the martyrdom of innocent Afghans. Instead, it is now settling into Pakistan’s embrace and applauding the Pakistani military establishment.
This is the same mercenary front that for decades spied for Pakistan and served Pakistani interests through government positions while pretending to oppose them publicly. Now it has become clear to the entire Afghan nation who the true servants of Pakistan were and still are.
For the resistance front, Afghan land and Afghan identity hold no value. What matters to them is wealth, power, and personal gain, even if these opportunities come through the presence of foreign invaders. They do not care if innocent Afghans are martyred, homes destroyed, mosques bombed, or Afghanistan’s territorial integrity violated.
The Pakistani army and intelligence services have always profited from war and carried out Western projects in the region, not only against Afghans but also against neighboring countries and even oppressed Palestinians. Now Pakistan’s army has taken on the contract of defending Israel and disarming oppressed Palestinians, sending troops to Gaza to protect Israeli interests there as well.
The Pakistani army is a malignant tumor in the Islamic world that has always oppressed Muslims on behalf of the West and defended Western interests in Muslim countries. This impure army (Napak Army) must stop trading in Afghan blood, for the residents of this land will no longer accept proxy wars nor become victims of foreign military projects. Every act of aggression, every blind bombardment, and every fabricated excuse will meet a response from the Afghan people. Afghans do not seek war, but if war is imposed on them, they have not yet laid down their swords. They will never bow to any oppressor.
If the Pakistani army blames Afghanistan for its own failures and seeks revenge on civilians, this is not a sign of Afghan weakness but rather a certificate of the Pakistani military regime’s decline. As always, Afghans will defend their home, honor, and rights, and will pluck out the eyes that look upon this land with malice.
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