Who Will Save Pakistan?

By:       Aasef Chauhdry

Pakistan is passing through the most crucial time of its history. Not because it has some external threats or chances of hostilities and aggression by its some neighbours but for the reason that unfortunately it has dire threats from its very own people; folks who belong to Pakistan, who have availed the luxuries and enjoyed all the possible perks those could be extended to them but at the end of the day when it was their turn to pay back to the holy motherland, what they paid was nothing but abuses, cursing and stabbing the back.

Everyone who has some care and pain for Pakistan is baffled and bamboozled about what is being said by a group of politicians none other than of a national repute who were expected to behave responsibly and what all they are doing. It looks as if the history of East Pakistan is purposely being repeated; same scenario, same situation, same characters but with the changed names. One wonders if the outcome of this whole drama is also going be to be (God forbid) the same too?

Just few weeks back the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party head Mahamood Khan Achakzai stirred up a controversy by saying on Afghan soil that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa belongs to Afghans and they can live there without fear and irritation. “If Afghans are harassed in other parts of Pakistan, they should come here to the Pakhtunkhwa province, where no one can ask them for refugee cards, because it also belongs to them.” He came up with a novel idea that Kabul and Islamabad should exercise extreme caution to resolve Torkhum crossing conflict. Otherwise, they should leave the issue to the US and China, and they would resolve it within two weeks. This controversial statement was stillin the air when Achakzai deliberately once again hurt the feelings of billions of Pakistanis in general and millions of Pashtun categorically when on the floor of the parliament he said that he will never say Pakistan Zindabad until the Pashtun are subjugated by the Punjabis and any Pashtun who says Pakistan Zindabad is a disgrace. The irony was that the govt quarters didn’t question him neither did the speaker of the parliament expunge his obnoxious and disgraceful remarks.

Achakzai’s links with the Afghan intelligence and the Indians are an open secret now. Everyone knows about his close relations with the Afghan Intelligence chief who happens to be from the Achakzai tribe of Afghanistan side. Sometime ago a senior anchorperson, Mubashir Lucman had revealed that the chief of Pashtunkhwa Mili Awami Party (PkMAP), Mehmood Khan Achakzai allegedly received millions of dollars from the Afghan Intelligence for winning the elections in 2013. In his program ‘Khara Sach’, he showed a video in which it can be clearly seen that the notorious commander of the Afghan Intelligence, Major General Abdul Razik Achakzai, who is considered to be involved in different plans aimed at breaking Pakistan, is conspiring against the Pakistan Army. He is also alleged of infiltrating the agents of India’s spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), in Pakistan with a motive of spreading terrorism here, after training them at his stronghold in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. Lucman also showed the pictures of two bullet-proof land cruisers, which were gifted to the PkMAP chief by the Afghan Intelligence.
Pakistan and the Pakistanis were still not over with the embarrassment when another disgrace and traitor Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain’s anti-Pakistan speech went viral on social media which stirs controversy across the country.
In the available video clip, the MQM supremo can be seen not only cursing Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif but calling Pakistan a failed state, cancer, epicenter of terrorism and worst country on earth. Altaf Hussain made this live audio-call-speech to its party workers in Karachi who were on a Hunger Strike for last 6 days. MQM leader not only cursed Pakistan but also asked workers to attack Media Houses which do not broadcast his live video calls from London. The speech caused huge disrupt and unrest in Karachi. MQM’ provoked workers attacked different Media Houses in Karachi especially ARY News, Neo TV and other media workers. Following the attack, violence erupted in various parts of metropolitan in which at least one innocent lost his life and many received injuries.

Amidst this when patriotic Pakistanis were looking towards the prime minister and were expecting him to give a strong shut-up call to these disloyal and anti-state elements, the Punjab government’s blue eyed the provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan came up with a weird and funny claim that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is silent on the arrest of an Indian agency’s agent from Balochistan under a strategy. Not only that he declined to confirm arrest of two Indian engineers on sabotage charges from a factory owned by the Sharifs in a Punjab town, he refused to reveal that “brilliant strategy” too.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is not only silent over Kulbhushun Yadav case, Achakzai’s statement or Altaf Hussain’s treason but he is silent over killing of innocent Kashmiris also, only because of his friendship with Indian Prime Minister Modi and for his this mysterious and criminal attitude he is blamed by almost every opposition leader of repute. Some of the on record allegations were; Nawaz Sharif’s silence over Kashmir riots is reprehensible and unacceptable, it seems like Nawaz and Modi have taken the same stance over the killings in Kashmir, Nawaz Sharif is silent on the deadly violence in Kashmir due to his friendship with Modi, this friendship has done severe damage to the Kashmir cause and as the result; innocents are being murdered in cold blood.

A painful question lurking in every concerned and faithful Pakistani mind that if our leaders have banked upon selling the country once again then who will come forward to rescue the motherland and the inopportune nation? Or we are waiting for another fall after the Dhaka to happen?