Nothing could be more truer then these words. We hear about Afghan issue on YouTube and this forum, only.
It is hardly discussed amongst Pakistanis in real life and even when it is it's in a typically Pakistani muted fashion. That's the thing I love about our people, our nation, despite the image, you hardly ever come across hate against anyone. Anger, yes, not hate and even that anger is only ever on the surface level lol, it's astounding but we generally are blind to this beautiful aspect of ourselves.
I have seen proper hateful anger amongst other groups, to the East and West, I mean real hate, not the type you see on the surface but the naked duplicity which shines through. It just doesn't exist amongst Pakistanis. We have a we don't give a shyt attitude, which sometimes gets misinterpreted as something else.
If today Afghans said ok, let's move on, we are brothers in arms, it would literally take our people a microsecond to forget everything, from rejection at independence to tens of thousands of deaths and forgive everything.
Just look at Iran, they bombed us last year, and look at the support for Iran. I actually still feel bitter about that episode and few other issues but I couldn't give a damn, no one hits my brother. I have even tried to play devil's advocate to elicit bad views on Iran from people I thought might be forthcoming, but no, there's widespread across the board support for Iran, no questions asked.
Although, we have started to expect reciprocal support, those voices are getting loader, no more blind brotherhood. We support you, where are you when we need you, why don't you come out onto the streets in support of Pakistan. It's about time such questions are asked from others.