Owen Jones discusses Pakistan and only invites Obaidullah for his one-sided Afghan hot take regarding this conflict? Can you all connect the dots, can you see the games being played outside our borders?
A lot of Pakistanis have their attention focused on the US war in Iran and how Pakistan can rescue the gulf... Rescue yourself first.
We need to be decisive and deal with this problem inside our own border and on our western border once and for all. We cannot allow the threat of frozen conflict on our Eastern flank, hostile entities on to our west - who are facilitating terrorism groups inside Pakistan...
Because as the gulf starts to heat up and things get more desperate, you can bet your chip that our leaders are going to make a strategic mistake and end up embroiled in something that is not our fight.
Coming back to the topic of terrorism inside Pakistan and its root origins (Afghanistan & India). What are the current thoughts of members here?
Over past 24 hours IBOs have been conducted in:
We have seen a policy of TTP apologists using the narrative of victimhood - in this forum as well you would have seen people sharing this messaging.
The Taliban have been reciving coaching from India and launched their English language magazine
Al Mirsaad. This magazine is primarily a propaganda platform used to praise the Taliban and their efforts inside Afghanistan and that their only mission is to govern Afghanistan, we as Pakistanis know that this is not the case as they have made mention many times that the Kabul government neither recognizes nor respect internationally established borders and boundaries:
So, focusing solely on Pakistan - we are faced with a hostile neighbor who is wholly fixed on capturing the entirety of Pakistan, supports both overtly and covertly terrorists operating inside Pakistan and now has become closer to Russia and India.
Since the Taliban have gained some diplomatic acceptance, Pakistan is often painted by the Taliban and their mouthpieces as aggressors and this vlog by Owen Jones is a perfect example of a buffoon who has no understanding of the dynamics here getting involved in and giving credence to Taliban deflection.
Taliban often deconstruct any allegations of supporting terrorism by claiming they are fighting AQN and ISIL, this is simply not the case, Pakistan has documented evidence of the Taliban government in Kabul allowing the free flow of militants from ETIM, IMU, TTP among others.
In the 137 articles published in Al-Mirsaad, TTP is only mentioned
FOUR times. This editorial silence is crucial to understand the machinations of India and their newfound bedfellows in Kabul.
Pakistan has been crystal clear that TTP sanctuary is the central justification for military operations against Afghanistan, yet just like their masters in Kabul, the editorial team of this "magazine" refuse to engage with the subject. Simply put this is selective framing, and as Pakistanis we are familiar with this tactic deployed oft by our Indian neighbors.
It doesn't take the editor of a broadsheet to understand what is going on here. Its lamentable that despite this clear and present anti-Pakistan narrative and gaining readership among certain sections in the West, our commentators and opinionators in Mass Media, social media and printed media refuse to tackle this weaponized deflection and implication campaign targeted against Pakistan.
