The Taliban Is Moving on Peshawar

Taliban has strengthened its grip on pakistan; below i am providing some detail. The Taliban in pakistan primarily direct their activities Pakistan's border regions Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. taliban are also in a fight with the Pakistan, despite the recent peace agreements with the NWFP government. Although the Islamists have halted suicide attacks in return for the government's release of their prisoners, most of their activities have not stopped. Pakistan government is only concerned about the activities of Taliban inside Pakistan, peace deals with Taliban ensures that they gain their objectives which is the release of their prisoners and free roaming at the same time Pakistan government is happy too because they ensure less violence. Unfortunately for Pakistan ISI things quite don’t work out as they hoped. For example, even after the government made a deal with the Islamist group Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of the Islamic Shari'a), releasing its leader from prison and permitting it to enforce shari'a in the Swat and Malakand region of the NWFP, the Taliban did not cease its violent activities, and in late June, 10 girls' schools were burned in the Swat district.

This is one of numerous examples of the Taliban defying the government in the regions it controls. However, the main cause for concern is the Taliban's recent advance on Peshawar. Since late June, the Taliban has been present in all the surrounding regions – namely Khyber Agency, Darra Adam Khel, Mohmand Agency, Shabqadar, Michni, Mardan, and Frontier Region Peshawar. Even in the city itself and in its environs, there have been reports of violence and destruction: electricity pylons and power substations have been vandalized, shops selling CDs and DVDs in the center of Peshawar have been bombed, and the Peshawar military base has come under rocket fire – leading some to speculate that the city may soon fall to the Taliban. The business community in the NWFP has expressed its concern over this possibility. Inayat Khan, vice president of the NWFP Chamber of Commerce and Industry, noted that both residents and investors were worried about the increasing "Talibanization" of the Peshawar area.

In early June, NWFP Police Chief Malik Naved Khan warned the province authorities about the danger, stating that, if the government failed to take action, Peshawar would soon be under Taliban control. His concerns were echoed by the province's top bureaucrat, Tipu Mohabbat Khan, who likewise noted in mid-June that Taliban fighters were moving on the city. However, these warnings were disregarded by the secular government of the province, led by the Awami National Party that came to power in the February 2008 elections. The secular governments in Peshawar and Islamabad have been criticized widely outside Pakistan – for instance by Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. – for pursuing a policy of dialogue with the Taliban.

suicide attack on indian embassy

A Taliban suicide car bomb has hit the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing 41 people and wounding 141. The bomber rammed his car into the embassy just as two diplomatic vehicles were entering the compound. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack. The Health Ministry said 28 people were killed and 141 wounded, but a senior police official said the death toll was 41.

This was a very organised attack. The authorities admitted that the attack was coordinated the precision, timing and target of the attack has so overwhelmed the authorities that they now link it to Pakistan secret service. Among many Indian embassy staff is the military attaché too.

The attack has also killed many children too who were on their way to school. I am attaching some picture to help visualise the crime. This is such a cruel act of inhumanity that I don’t want to write about how wrong it is. but there is one question in my mind; given the precision of the attack, Taliban or whoever is behind the attack got what they wanted the death of civilians is a collateral damage which is trivial for achieving a larger goal. I have been on both sides of the claim I could easily condemn the attack and the larger goal of the attacker. I have been to such scenes and I was so shocked and the only thing I wanted was no more attack. There are many people in Afghanistan today who don’t like violence because inevitability innocent people are going to die in the process. these people are foreigners favourite. The foreign community love people who don’t like to pursue violence to resolve conflicts while they themselves are happy to do so. If you are an afghan intellegencia or part of civil society then you condemn violence and don’t Taliban. in return taliban are accusing them of being weak and playing in the hands of invaders, which is true to some extent.

However I have been to the other side of the argument too. After 9/11 I did not feel sorry at all I thought it was an incident which had some collateral damage which compared to my experience was nothing. In my life time over two million of my compatriots have died and half of the country have fled. I believed 9/11 is good for Afghanistan. the world would be so pissed off that they won’t tolerate Taliban and Afghanistan is going to be a better place without Taliban. I have no sympathy and connection with people who died on 9/11 what so ever, while I am deeply connected with two million people who died in my country in my life time.

My response right now to this incident is; if my little brother comes home safe and he is not among dead and wounded children, this is a nice attack with horrific collateral damage. This is an unfair world and everybody pursues an agenda and collateral damage happen it was just yesterday that Americans bombed a village and killed 25 people in wedding when they suspected it of a Taliban gathering in Nangarhar province; it was the day before yesterday that Americans bombed a village in nuristan and killed 15 people in a mistaken attack.

worsening Afghan-western relation; who to blame?

A german friend of mine is in kabul doing some work with media, he wrote to me today mentioning of Afghan Western relation. Martin was saying that Afghan's expectations and cynism towards foreigners has reach a new level, as to my impression,
he is saying that sometimes he has the impression that Afghans put all foreigners in one box and hit on it. I put the blame on westeners it should be admitted that some westerners made grievous mistakes and contributed tremendously to the worsen situation if not causing it.

No doubt that there are numerous foreigners who lets say deserve to be in Afghanistan, in a sense that they are professional, culturally sensitive/receptive and above all respect afghans; but only one devious westerner *only a single one* is enough to be cynical and question them in a categorical term. its up to the rest of good westerners to criticise the conduct of the tricky single or group and do not side with them merely because they are fellow westerner. As a member of a group it’s the duty of the individual to bear some responsibility for the action of his groupmates. This sense of shared responsibility forms the basis of any constructive criticism of the group from within. Good westerners who are averse by the action of individuals who are socially categorised as your team-mates, then they have strong incentive to criticise and take action. I did not choose to be an afghan and I certainly did not want to become one; But because I am perceived socially from Afghanistan; I get the blame for the action of 30mil dim people, both personally and institutionally. Its up to me to criticise the conduct of my compatriots not to be pissed off with the rest of the world because the first is more constructive while the later has no outcome except for frustration.

There are two stories back to back in British media today. One on BBC trust admitting one of its popular programs (Top Gear) glamorised alcohol, and the response from the majority of British society though media is that it’s a load of bollocks. Top gear is great program and the trust shouldn’t have done it because one person found it offensive. One person complained that the program glamorised alcohol. Of course if you don’t know the program and the social context its hard to understand why the public are upset by the decision of the trust. The repeated theme is that it’s a program viewed by 11 mil people and why should trust denounce a good program because of one person.

The second story running in british media today is the story of a police ad in Dundee where a police public announcement uses a german shepherd (HERO) in a poster. The media reported that muslim community found the ad offensive. The truth of the matter is, it was not the muslim community but an individual who is sitting on the Dundee city council. He said muslims will refuse to display it in their shops.

In both these stories it comes to an individual in the first story the public consensus is that the guy who found the program offensive doesn’t matter and he is a wanker. In the second instance the public consensus is that the muslim councillor is not a hypocrite, but this is a ridiculous move by the muslim community; and the majority of muslims who wrote on this topic did not say that its an individual hypocrite who should have been ignored the same as in the case of top gear but they said this is not tolerable and its ridiculous.

So the point I make with the story is that if westerners feel cynicism in Afghanistan, which anyone in sound mind should not only feel but be seriously hindered, then they should take action against their fellow westerners who taint their name.

Here is an example of a westerner who shouldn’t have been to Afghanistan. morgan williams working for an NGO wrote a story for the daily mail, the tabloid paper, about her ‘adventures’ in Afghanistan. the story is disgusting, it tells the story of arrogance, incompetence and corrupt westernism. I have monitored the story and no body criticize it; as a matter of fact many people including internews picked it up as a story of pride, see here http://www.internews.org/articles/2008/20080419_dailymail_afghan.shtm.

Anybody in a sound mind with no knowledge of Afghanistan would ask if its OK to have bikini and booz in Kabul. And nobody wonders if she ever saw zakia; because the discrepancy of morgan and zakia life portrayed in this story would not only bring them together but make them enemies. I doubt if she had any conversation with zakia and she just heard these stories in her armoured car and she is using it to afghan-coat her adventures. I believe, the foreign community has brought it on themselves, they isolated themselves by setting up restaurants, bars and special entertainment places. They drive in their armoured cars, they have no contact with Afghans whatsoever. It took over five year for Afghans to become fed up with Morgan-type. westerners in Kabul are hypocritical, therefore they can’t be trusted. they talk of universality in equal human rights while they have established an apartheid regime supported by the aid mechanism which has successfully created another layer of governance undermining Karzai regime.

Afghanistan needs skilled people to help with reconstruction and there is plenty of aid money around to pay for westerners to come and work in Afghanistan. the number of skilled westerners who go to Afghanistan is far lower than the demand due to security fears. The question is weather you consider Morgan class people as skilled and ultimately the argument is whether Afghanistan should accept the conceited life style of westerners in exchange for their skills.

نامـــــه از آزاده خراسانی به حـــامــــــد خـــــان کرزی

 

حـــــامــــدا! رحمی بکن ما را جگـــرخـون کرده ای

پیــــروبرنا مــــرد وزن را زارو محــــزون کرده ای

 

                          قــــامت شمـشــــاد هـــر نخــل  جـــوان مملـــکــت              

ازمرارت هــــا ی د وران حـلـقـــــــه نون کرده ای

 

روزو شب اندیـشــــه هــا ازبهــرقـــــرص نان بود

بس که نرخ آرد و روغـن را توافــــــزون کرده ای

 

کارمنـــد وبذرگـــــرهم  کارگـــــرهم پیـشـــــــه ور

هــرجماعت رابه سهـــم خــــویش دلخـــون کرده ای

 

قــــــامت زشـت  فســـــــاد ورشـــــوه را درهرکجا

درنــــــگاه ژرف مــا زیبـــــــا ومــــوزون کرده ای

 

ازنظــــــا فــت نیست  در شهــــــــــرودیارمــا اثــر

مردمــان رامبــــتلا با سل وطـــــاعــــــون کرده ای

 

ســــاختی با مردمـــان چــا پلــــــوس و حیـــــله گـــر

بیـنـــوا ، بی آبرو، ملـــک  فـــــــریــــد ون کرده ای

 

 دیــده ایم  با "آی اس آی"1 داد وبســــــــتان شمــــــا

نوعـــــروس ممـلکــــت ازپرده بیــــــرون کرده ای

                                                                  

با دوام این چـنــین برنامـــــــه هـــای نا صـــــــواب

فتــنه هـــــا روشن به هروادی و هــامـــــون کرده ای

 

مردم خــــودرا فـــروخــتی هــیــــچ د ر بازار روز

تکیــه برغـــربی و امریــکای ملـعـــــــون کرده ای

                                                                             

هــــاله ای دوروبــرت ازســـوپراســکل2 هــــا بــود

بذرنفــرت کشت درمــا فــــوق ومــا د ون کرده ای

 

گشته ای همکاسه وهمــــرازفـــرعـــون زمــــــان

بس تغـا فـــــل هــا زموسی وزهـــــارون کرده ای

 

ازپول تریاک وچــــرس وهــــیروئین بی شمــــــار

خویشتن راصــــاحب یک گـنــــج قـــــارون کرده ای

 

امــن وآســـایش نمــانده بهــــر  کس دراین وطـــــن

سیل غــم جاری به دل ها مثـــل جیحـــــون کرده ای 

         

توزیع جنگ وجــــدل را با مهـــــــارت هرکجـــا

ازهــریوا تا  لوگـــــــــر وشهــــرارگـــون کرده ای

 

شیــشه امیـــــد ما با سنــــــگ نومیـــــدی شکــست

بس که نا فــــرمانی ازخــالـــق بی چــون کرده ای

 

 راست وچپ با ملحـــــــد وهم مـدعیـــان جهــــــــاد

با سفـیـــــــد و با سیـــاه وسـرخ ومعجــون کرده ای

 

خاک را برفـــرق مــلت کــرده ی ای حقــــــــه باز

 ســـــرنــوشت مــلک وملت را تو وارون کرده ای

 

  بــا چنــین آدم کشــــــــــــــان و با  رژیــــم نــا روا

کــوکب اقـبــــــال ملــت را   همــــــایون کرده ای

 

والیــــــان وآمـــــــــران و عامــــــلان کـارخـــــــود

  رشــــــوه و رتبه عطــا ، ازخویش مـــدیون کرده ای

                                                                                        

 

الامــــــان ازین فســــــــاد بی امــــان درممـلکــــت

 میهـــــن ازشرو فســـاد وفســق مشحـــون کرده ای

 

آه ســــرد مـــا به قلــــب سنــــگ تو کاری نکـــــرد

ای بسی ازآرزوهـــا را که  مــــدفــــــــون کرده ای

 

وعــده ها دادی به مردم هــرصبـــاح و شامــــگاه

  با  فریب ووعـــــده ها ما  را تو افســـون کرده ای

 

تاکــه ازتریـــاک باشـــــد گـــــرم بـــازاروطــــــن

ملت بیچـــــــاره را معتـــــــاد افـــیـــون کرده ای

                                                                                         

مشت اوباش و اراذل جمـــــع اند درحــــــــزب3 تو

صد جفــــــــا برمردمــان غیرپشـــــــتون کرده ای

 

ســـــــازو کارتو بود تبعـــــیض وتریاک وتــــرور

بین که آخرکشــــورم را غیرمامـــــــــون کرده ای

 

فــتـــنه ها خیزد زشـــرق و ازجــــــنوب 4 مملکت

خستــه قلب آسیـــــــا تاربع مسکــــــــون کرده ای

 

درشعــــارنظــم نوین رامی کنی نشخــــــــوارهم

درعمل اندرقبـــــــیله خویش مکنـــــــون کرده ای

 

گشته فقـــــــر وجهــــــــل ساری درمیان مردمان

تاکه دانشـــــــــــگاه ما را تو پوهنـــــتون5 کرده ای

 

درمیان مردمان تفــــــــریق و تبعیـــــض رانگــــر!

با لطــــایف الـحیـــــــــل ایجــاد بیلــــــتون6 کرده ای

 

جنـــــگل و قانون وی آوردی ازمغـــــــــرب زمین

کشورم را خالی هم ازنظــــم و قــــــانون کرده ای

 

جای کعبـــــــــه رونمودی سوی ترکســــتان همی

اقتــــــداء بر"موسی لینی" و "کلینــتون" کرده ای

 

باچنین خــــــدمت گــزاری بهر هر بیــــــگانه ای

 جورج بوش  و براون را ازخویش ممنون کرده ای

 

مازدیم سنـــــگ قـنـــــاعت را به سینــه هـــرزمان

لیک می بینم به قـــدرت خویش مرهـــون کرده ای

 

حــــیرت افــــــزاید چـــرا درواپســـین ایام خــــود

طــرح ازنا مرد می هـــا را تو بیـــــــرون کرده ای

 

تحت هـــربرنامـــــه ای ما را تو اغـــــوامی کنی

صورت ما را زسیلی سرخ وگلگــــــــون کرده ای

 

من  زتو شاکی  نیم تنهــــا  ای عــــالی جنــــــاب!

هــرکجــا مردان عاقـــل را تو  مظنـــون کرده ای

 

 صــبر ما آخـــرسر آمد،  لحظــــه  ها گردد قــریب  

بشـــنویم که رخت خویش ازارگ بیـــرون کرده ای

 

تا که لیــــــــلی وطــــــن باشــــــد به کام اجــــنبی8

"آزاده " ازعشق میهـــــن زارومجنـــــون کرده ای

 

azada.khorasani@yahoo.com

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پانوشت :

 

1. سازمان جاسوسی  همسایه ما پاکستان که مقدرات کشورما را به دست دارند.

2.  همان خیل مشاورین نفهم و کج اندیش که با تابعیت دوگانه و اندیشه مخلانه وارد ازطرف سازمان های جاسوسی بیگان وارد دستگاه اجرایی کشورشده اند. و کاری جز اتلاف وقت و سرمایه ندارند.

3.  حزب حاکم اوغان ملت که با اندیشه های فاشیستی ساخته شده است.

4 .  متاسفانه طبیعت مردمان این دوساحه با صلح و امنیت سازگاری ندارند. پیوسته به ماجراجویی می پردازند.

5.  واژه اوغانی به معنای دانشگاه.

6.  واژه اوغانی به معنای جدایی.

7.  نیروهای اشغالگر.