THE TWIN IDIOTS
The Twin Idiots (Hamid
Karzai of Afghanistan and
Asif Zardari of Pakistan)
went to Washington
to meet the man who is responsible for the killing of Pashtoons on both sides
of the border. Villagers dug dirt graves Wednesday to bury what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans —
including women and children — killed in American bombing runs. A former Afghan
government official said up to 120 people may have died. On the other side of
the border more than 40,000 people have so far fled from clashes between the
army and militants in Swat, officials’ say. Fighting erupted on Tuesday night
in Mingora, Swat's main town, where the Taliban defied a curfew, they add.
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai called the deaths only unacceptable
but does not have the guts and courage to tell the American clearly and bluntly
that they must stop or otherwise leave our country. He was speaking only hours
before his first face-to-face meeting with the American President at the White House. The current war in Afghanistan and Tribal areas of Pakistan is only against the Pashtoons.The death toll that has
resulted from the 2001 illegal invasion of Afghanistan is estimated between
fourty and eighty thousand. Indisputably, the overwhelming majority have been
Pashtoons. This is unsurprising given that most resistance groups are Pashtoon
and operate from Pashtoon areas; yet enormous numbers of Pashtoon civilians
have also been killed. Air raids are indiscriminate and based on fatally flawed
intelligence - the USAF have been effectively tricked, in several instances,
into assassinating Pashtoon tribal elders by rival tribes or warlords who had
deliberately fed them false information.
Only 3,500 innocent
people died in 9/11 attack but more than one million were killed in Iraq and still
no end to it. More than 80,000 were killed in Afghanistan and are still being
killed. How much the US
and its allies want to kill? How long America
and Britain
want to go on the killing spree? America and Britain has not apologised yet for
the killing of Iraqis and Afghans but only has regret.
Mr. Obama and his
predecessor both responsible for sidelining the country majority and have
chosen to give power to a tiny minority (Northern Alliance) Despite comprising
more than 50% of Afghanistan’s total population of 32m, the Pashtoons remain
poorly represented at all levels of government. Whilst a number of ministers
are ethnic Pashtoons, they are mostly coalition installed, pro-American,
foreign nationals: Hamid Karzai’s links to US business interests are well
documented; the defence minister and former finance minister are American
citizens; the foreign minister, German; and the Interior minister, British -
tribal Pashtoons do not see them as acting in their interests. Many Pashtoon
parties are outlawed - not one is currently active in government - meaning that
all Pashtoon ministers are therefore Independents, with little effective power.
Real political power lies in the hands of the Northern
Alliance warlords - many of whom have committed numerous war
crimes, not least against the Pashtoons. From
history we learned that Obama and his predecessors played the great game to
create problems among the countries, armed tribes against tribes, nation
against nation to safeguard their own interests. The Drone attack inside Pakistan has
been intensified, and the genocide of the Pashtoon tribal belt continued
unabated. Last
year Pakistan
finally closed camps that had housed Afghan refugees for three decades. During
the past six months it's been forced to reopen them, this time for its own
people.
In
the Katcha Ghari camp near Peshawar,
at the edge of abandoned and crumbling Afghan homes,
Both Hamid Karzai and Asif Zardari are standing with Barack
Obama but the big question is who is standing with the victims of the American and
NATO bombing? No family has received an
apology and compensation for the lost of their loved ones but only regret which
can not heal the wounds of the people of Afghanistan
and Pakistan
but it only make them stronger to resist the illegal occupation. Asif Zardari
is a very weak leader and has no guts to confront the Americans. Here he is
with Wolf Blitzer.
“My government is not going to fall,” Zardari assured
Blitzer as he sat with the cable news host in the Situation Room — not the one
in the White House, but the one in CNN’s Washington bureau near Union Station.
Blitzer directed Zardari to watch a presentation of the Taliban’s gains on
CNN’s “magic map” plasma screen.
“Exaggerated,”
Zardari said. “We’ve been giving them a fight.”
“Do you need
American help?” Blitzer offered.
“I need drones,”
Zardari said.
Luckily, Blitzer
had some drone footage. “If you turn around over there, you can see some
pictures,” Blitzer said. Zardari obliged. Next, Blitzer directed him to look at
a video of a CNN “iReport” from a Pakistani
College student in Florida. “Turn around and you can see him,”
Blitzer ordered. Zardari, looking bewildered by Blitzer’s arsenal of plasma
screens, obeyed.
“Are you going to
send your troops in,” Blitzer demanded, “and clean out that area from the
Taliban and al-Qaeda?”
“Most definitely,” Zardari promised Blitzer
was satisfied. “Mr. President,” he said, “good luck.”
Hamid Karzai is no
different than Zardari. Whenever the resistance groups attack and resist the
American and NATO inside Afghanistan
the Afghan President will urgently give a miss
call to B52 and F16 to rescue them. It's too late now; the
incompetent TWIN IDIOTS (Hamid Karzai and Asif Zardari) of this blighted land
have made the things go beyond the point of no return.
Mohammad N Asif
Afghan Exile Journalist
President, Scottish Afghan Society