Since 2001 Pakistan is facing an unresolved dilemma. The recent events in Mumbai and yesterday’s attack on Sri Lanka cricket team,8 policemen killed and 6 team members and officials hurt in Lahore revealed that everyone is pointing finger at Pakistan.
Majority of the international community blame Pakistan for most terrorist's acts around the world and even internal as well. It’s great pity that the world forgets that no one can act in a vacuum.
Every cause has got to be an effect.
Pakistan was an ally for more than twenty years during Russian-Afghan war. Pakistan was the front line state against communism and is the front line state against the war on terror. It is only Pakistan bearing full brunt of all the negative effects emerging from such situations.
A country of hundred and sixty million people of which forty percent are living below poverty line, weak infrastructure and dangling economy. Literacy rate is hardly forty three percent. Apart from its own problems Pakistan accepted and served three million refugees from across the Afghan border.
Its western allies and US trumpeted about the war against communism. They overlooked drugs and gun culture over taking the northwest frontier of Pakistan. By that time it was in their interest to provide fodder for the Russian guns and bombs.The fight against communism was considered legitimate and acceptable. But the same has backfired now in another guise. Brainwashing the people for more than twenty years will haunt the country and the world for many years to come.
This bleak scenario does not exempt Pakistan from blame but addind insult to injury, west supported military dictatorships all the way through. The hailed Democracy was only better for their people. It is only acceptable in other countries when ‘interest’ demands so. “Ends justifies means” Machiavelli would have seen it practically happening that how the world is acting towards a vulnerable state.
The policy of isolation towards a country that helped the world on its own expense would bear no good results. Blame game or excommunication would lead to more chaos and unrest in the region. Weak economy and weak democracy cannot guarantee a strong education and an impregnable security against a powerful monster-terrorism..
People have already suffered enough. The choice is open and clear. Isolation may satisfy a few but destabilisation may lead to unimaginable disaster. It is time to help build democracy strong and healthy. Lets select a better choice by helping Pakistan out of the whirl-not self created, for the future of democracy and the world.
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