Pakistan slams West’s

handling of war on terror

Pakistan’s 9/11 happened some 30 years ago when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Since then both Afghanistan and Pakistan are in the grip of bloody violence.

Every day some 70,000 to 75,000 Afghans cross over the Durand Line into Pakistan, they all look alike and every one of them could be mistaken for Taliban but they enter our country without let or hindrance on either side of the border.

The West and the US are turning a blind eye on the drug menace which is actually funding the Taliban war efforts. Afghanistan is the source of 93per cent of world’s drug supply which by the time it reaches the streets of Europe and the US turns into a bounty of over $38 billion and out of that at least about $3.8 billion reach the Taliban which they use for the purchase of sophisticated weaponry, the state of the art communications systems and costly jeeps on which they mount missiles.

The US, the NATO and the UK should plug the routes through which these drugs are smuggled out and the war equipment is smuggled in the Pak-Afghan border areas instead of asking Pakistan to do more.

Most of the weaponry being used by the Taliban is new, not the one used 30 years ago when the Soviets were occupying Afghanistan. We don’t know where they are coming from. We need our Nato friends to help us to find the source so that we could put a stop to it.

The ‘Harvard’ and ‘Oxford’ solutions are only creating resentment among the people of Pakistan against the US, Europe and the UK. Pakistan should be allowed to tackle the problem using ‘home grown’ solutions.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are two countries but one challenge.