Short Memory Lapse: revisit our
Foreign policy
Pakistan was created by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah based upon his saying,
which Pakistan has forgotten in the current times:
“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it
right.”
But Pakistan since creation in 1947 has had neither taken any correct decision
nor made any decision correct. Pakistan has always taken decisions either wrong
or at wrong time. The main example is that of Terrorism in Pakistan which is
affecting the country on socio-economic basis depriving individuals of their
basic right of life. This matter of extremism will be the topic of discussion
here-after.
We all know what terrorism is and how it all started and all such information.
But in Pakistan how it emerged and prevailed till the current times and its main
cause would be discoursed. The main item analyzed so far is our short memory
lapse, which again and again leads us towards betrayal. We forgot the saying of
Quaid:
“Expect the best, prepare for the worst.”
Where to start and where to end is emerging as a complicate issue for Pakistan
regarding the problem of terrorism. The recent Peshawar attack on 16th December,
2014 is a heart-breaking and mind-torturing accident which has crossed all the
limits against humanity and towards animosity.
There are various actors who have grassed us, but among them the main is the
so-called ‘Policeman of the World’ i.e. US. It had deceived at every step of our
journey. Initiating with our creation in 1947, there was a cold war between the
two ideologies of Capitalism by US and Communism by USSR. Pakistan and India
were given a task to join a bloc. India remained neutral whereas Pakistan joined
capitalism despite of an invitation form USSR. For this Pakistan started getting
military and financial aid. This was our first step towards terrorism.
The time passed by and the period of second Indo-Pak war started in 1967. India,
despite of being neutral, got aid from US and we were not given a single percent
even though we were a partner of US bloc. This was time which showed the
deceiving nature of US, but still we could not judge it and went on with the
friendship of US, by siding and becoming its frontline ally in 1979-89 Afghan
War.
We were fighting the proxy war of US against USSR in Afghanistan such that the
border known as Durand Line became so porous that there was free transformation
of weapons, funds and soldiers from Pakistan to Afghanistan. The soldiers were
given training by Pakistan. We were so busy in fighting the war of US that we
forgot to keep a strict check on the entry of terrorism in our boundaries. US
left the region after war and left us in the lurch of this destruction to handle
it on our own. Along with this we were being portrayed evil and enemies as after
the end of Cold war in 1991, the Secretary General of NATO gave a statement
against us:
“The Red threat (Communism) has been eliminated, but there is a new Green threat
of Political Islam emerging”
This was the second time, we were deceived by US but then again we forgot and
titled our policy towards them by becoming a frontline participant of ‘War On
Terror’ as per the Bush Administration in 2001 after the 9/11 incident.
According to it, there was an enduring operation done by attacking the claimed
terrorists’ areas through Drone. It was an open violation of human rights as
innocent locals were also been killed by being a doubtful personality.
Owing to all the friendship plans of wars with US, we have just invited
terrorism, destruction and human right violation in our country. At the end the
negative part has been in our favor whereas the award-winning credit against
terrorists goes to US. Hence, at the end, we loose and US wins. There is peace
in US while killing and fear in Pakistan. There is credit in US but only blame
for Pakistan.
So itis the need of the hour to revisit and review our foreign policy towards US
and assess our partners and allies. We should now, at least after 67 years,
formulate an independent and sovereign foreign policy. We should now value our
people and land. We should now at least realize that the international law or
organizations are just for their own interests, we have to make our own law for
our own land and our own people. We have to start working on Quid’s principle
that:
“There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan. We are starting with this
fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which
we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of
Islamic social justice could find free play. Our object should be peace with-in,
and peace with-out. In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour. I have
full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past
Islamic history, glory and traditions.
Unity, Faith and Descipline”