On Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the town of Pisheen in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Balochistan province bordering Pakistan. This blast killed 42 people including seven military commanders. The country which Iran accuses of harboring and supporting the terrorist group responsible for this attack is Pakistan.
As an Indian we may not be surprised with this accusation of Iran because for decades we have been at the receiving end of the Pakistan’s state sponsored terrorism in our own backyard hence our full sympathies are with Iran.
If we see around the world, we will find that every terrorist activity will have some or the other connection with Pakistan. Be it India, Afghanistan, Europe or USA, investigation of every terror activity ends at Pakistan. Now a new name has been added to the list of “Victims of Pakistan Sponsored Terrorism” that is of Iran.
Over the years Pakistan has perfected the art of hoodwinking the international community by coming out with one after another master strokes to divert the attention. If India accuses Pakistan of terrorism then Pakistan refers to unresolved Kashmir issue. If Afghanistan accuses it of terrorism then Pakistan talks of Indian presence in Afghanistan. If Europe and USA accuse it of abetting terrorism then it talks of Al-Quaida in unadministered areas and if incriminating evidences are provided of ISI involvement then it talks of non state actors.
When a country talks of unadministered area and non state actors then there is some thing grossly wrong with the basics of that country hence international pressure should be applied to get its basics right but here Pakistan made this weakness into a money minting mechanism. Taking billions of dollars in aid in the name of fighting terrorist or so called non state actors in unadministered areas but with out any tangible results to show and then asking for more money and diverting a major portion of this money to fight proxy war against India.
In international diplomacy there is a term as “Rogue Nation” but for Pakistan a new term has to be coined may be on the lines of a “Mawali” shall we say a “Mawali Nation”. Yes after all it behaves like a mawali. Aid it takes from U.S. is sort of the protection money, terrorism in India and Afghanistan is blackmailing attempt, smuggling of narcotics in international market and pushing counterfeit currency in India is some thing which every mawali does to make some quick bucks.
So if countries affected with terrorism are serious about eliminating terrorism from their lives then all they need to do is come together and punish Pakistan severely. So the question is what punishment? Well, countries need to decide if this world would be much safer with out Pakistan or if Pakistan has to be there then in what form?
