Adil Najam
In times of pain – and these are times of pain – we sometimes need music to soothe our hurt. Sometimes we need to raise our voice to join others who are also crying out in pain.
We do so, not because it will ease their pain, but merely because it might – just might – ease our own pain.
Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
“If any body has been used by any body then these are the Talibans of today who were the Mujahaedeen of yesteryears. In Afghan war against Soviets they were used by America, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to expel Soviets from Afghanistan. When that job was done America left them high and dry.”
I am sick of hearing this garbage theory which is often thrown in to partly or wholly justify these terrorist organizations. That was 25 years ago! Was the U.S./Saudi Arabia supposed to re-educate these people and find them jobs or something? Can they not think for themselves? Are these people so effed up that they cannot distinguish between basic right and wrong any more? Are they so incapable of figuring things out themselves? If they are then may be they are the problem not anyone else! These people are their own creation, not anyone else’s.
Please also read a different perspective about YHN from
article no. 159 to 162
http://www.kashifhafeez.com
Thanks
Getting harder and harder to convince folks especially in the States of this:-/
@ Salah
Sorry to say that if you are looking for these things in Pakistan then you are at the wrong place. Go to some place where there is no religious bigotry or hypocrisy.
@ Pakistani says
“These taliban extremists are trying to use us just as these Americans are.”
Let truth not be a casuality in this war on terror. I am not a supporter of Taliban. I am absolutely against millitancy and extremism. However, I would like to say the following about the above statement.
If any body has been used by any body then these are the Talibans of today who were the Mujahaedeen of yesteryears. In Afghan war against Soviets they were used by America, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to expel Soviets from Afghanistan. When that job was done America left them high and dry. Saudi Arabia continued to support them to fight its proxy war with Iran in Pakistan. Pakistan continued to support them to use them to conquer India.
It just so happened that the Frankenstein thus created and nurtured turned back to attack its creaters.
The moral of this story is:
As you sow so shall you reap or
Chicken will come home to roost or
If you will sow the wind you will reap the whirlwind and sorry to say that’s what is happening now.