Afghanistan, Pakistan: From Tension to Conflict

He was ill for the last one and a half months. The illness was so severe that the doctors had instructed him to avoid watching news channels, social media and newspapers to avoid mental stress. Therefore, during this time I remained unaware of the events and developments on the political, economic and foreign fronts. Even the new war in Palestine was discovered two days later. Thanks to the blessings of God Almighty and His prayers, Alhamdulillah, now my infections are completely gone. During this time, I got a lesson that we are connected to the media everyday with the thought that we don't know what doomsday will happen in a minute, but if we don't spend our time on social media and electronic media, no doomsday will come. The second lesson learned is that each of us considers ourselves to be very important, although we will not be or will leave this world, then after two days someone else will fill our place.

That is why Allah has said in Surah Aal Imran: : And these are the days that we keep moving between people. During my absence, some good and encouraging measures were taken at the national level, including the devaluation of the dollar against the rupee and the return of Mian Nawaz Sharif, but one was the start of new Israeli brutality against the Palestinians and the other was Afghanistan. And there was a lot of pain due to the growing tension in Pakistan. The wound of Palestine is very deep and the problem is very serious, but obviously we or our government cannot do much about it. However, the issue of Afghanistan is our own, so the first request in this regard is that the attitude of both the government of Pakistan and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan towards each other is not appropriate. Pakistan is only making demands on the Afghan Taliban considering the favors and giving the impression that the officials of the Islamic Emirate are forgetting the favors while the Afghan Taliban are currently supporting the US in the 'War on Terror' instead of the favors of Pakistan.

By bringing forward the killing of some Afghan Taliban leaders in Pakistan in the past years, they are giving an impression that Pakistan has not done anything for them. Pakistan's concern that the Afghan territory used by the Taliban is being used against it is right, but the way it is demanding the Afghan Taliban to resolve the TTP issue in a single day is not appropriate and it is an internal matter of the Islamic Emirate. And ideological constraints must be taken into account. Second, in the recent past, Pakistan has also given an excuse to the Afghan Taliban. Our current political and military leadership was certainly against this process or did not participate in it, but the Taliban gave Pakistan General Bajwa and General Hafiz Asim Munir or Imran. Khan and Shehbaz Sharif do not see it in perspective. They say that the state of Pakistan (General Bajwa and General Faiz Hameed) or at the behest of Imran Khan, we sat the TTP for negotiations with Pakistani representatives, but without taking the matter to its logical conclusion, Pakistan unilaterally killed them. Ended the series. Thus our moral position was weakened vis-a-vis the Ansar and Mohsin (TTP) of our past. The mistake is being made by the Islamic Emirate that they only consider the problems of the Afghans living in Afghanistan as their responsibility, although if any action of the Islamic Emirate causes any harm to the refugees, on the Day of Judgment, it will also be the responsibility of the Islamic Emirate. Those in charge will be asked. The desire and effort of the state of Pakistan is absolutely right to compel the foreigners residing here, whether they are from Afghanistan, Iran or any other, to fulfill the legal requirements or pave the way for them to return to their countries, but from the Islamic Emirate. It is not appropriate to punish the refugees for their resentment. The first thing is that the people whose visas have expired or who do not have legal documents are mostly Afghans who came here after the Taliban came to power. 

These people have no sympathy with the Islamic Emirates, nor will the Islamic Emirates be worried about their return. Most of those who were affiliated with the Taliban or ex-Mujahideen have legal and computerized documents of Pakistan. Thus, the first place under the attack will be either those Afghans who are completely homeless or those who have come here after the Taliban came to power. I would request the state of Pakistan to Revise the policy. Facilitate registration and issuance of long-term visas to those who have come here since the Taliban took over. In the same way, allow the UAE government to issue ten-year golden visas for rich Afghans, open bank accounts, buy property and do business. Although Federal Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti is repeatedly instructing the police not to harass Afghans who have legal documents, but the fact is that after the government's announcement, the police is also harassing refugees who have legal documents in many places. 

Most of the complaints are coming from Sindh and there have been cases where when a migrant shows legal documents, the policeman arrests him and tears the documents. They want to fight both of them. Therefore, Pakistan and the Islamic Emirates should take this aspect into consideration and act with restraint and instead of taking advantage of each other's constraints, they should take these constraints into consideration. Finally, I would like to make an appeal to my fellow professionals that in the past years, around one and a half hundred Afghan journalists have come to Pakistan. Most of them have expired visas. We have been trying for the past one year to get them long-term visas, but there are obstacles from somewhere and they cannot move out of the poor houses or get any employment. I make a painful appeal to Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar, Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti and other relevant authorities to immediately issue long-term and working visas to these male and female Afghan journalists on humanitarian grounds.