This picture was taken of the two brave women Entrepreneurs at Peshawar at the residence of my friend where they made a courtesy call. Honorable Aneela Khalid is the Vice President of Women Chamber of Commerce Peshawar .
According to her she is mother of three children, a house wife, a self – made person with no support whatsoever and above all a business leader. The outspoken lady runs an event management company as well as an NGO that makes her multi – talented and multi-tasker in a society dominated by slackers that rightly qualifies her as a source of inspiration for many . During our informal discourse, she mentioned of holding an event at Peshawar to which the incumbent American Ambassador to Pakistan Honourable Donald Blome, is invited but she complained to have yet not got the security clearance from our security apparatus, obviously due to high security risk that terrorism might be posing to the Honourable US Ambassador.
Since, I am currently reading the book Directorate S, by the American author Steve Coll, in which he discussed how the brave female American diplomate Wendy Chamberlain won the Pakistan’s support for the war on terror. The book mentions a portion regarding Gen Mehmood Ahmed the then DG ISI, who was negotiating with Mullah Muhammad Umer, founder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to hand over Osama Bin Laden to the American Government against the tribal code of honour of Pukhtunwali, where no host can dare turn over his guests to his opponent , something Mullah Umer per force had to turn down that resulted into the American invasion of Afghanistan, being insensitive and insular against other nations’ cultural traditional and religious beliefs . I include the excerpts from the book below for the interest of my readers with my own foot note at the end.
“On September 24, Mahmud rode to the American embassy to meet with Chamberlin, Smith, and a visiting Pentagon team that had come to plan for the war. They gathered in a conference room in the chancery basement that had shelves of books about Pakistan . Mahmud spoke forcefully and emotionally. “The Taliban are on the side of good and against terrorism,” he declared. “You need the help of the Afghan people while U.S. forces are assembling. I beg you —I implore you—not to fire a shot in anger. It will set us all back many years.
Don’t let the blood rush to your head.” Mullah Mohammad Omar is frightened, Mahmud continued. “Reasoning with them to get rid of terrorism will be better than the use of brute force,” he said. If the Taliban were destroyed, Afghanistan would revert to rule by warlords, he predicted. “We will not flinch from a military effort ,” Mahmud promised. “But a strike will produce thousands of frustrated young Muslim men. It will be an incubator of anger that will explode two or three years from now.” He mentioned Sun Tzu’s aphorism about how the supreme art of war involved learning to win without firing a shot. Mahmud added, “Whatever decision you take, Pakistan will stand behind you.”
”“The most important sentence you spoke was the last one,” Chamberlin answered. “The time for negotiating is over. ”
Foot Note
The above excerpt clearly indicate that the Americans had already made up their mind to attack Afghanistan with or without Osama Bin Laden by turning a mole creature into a monster before the ill informed American nation . They ostensibly had already war gamed Afghanistan to be no match to the American military might believing that their victory would be certain. The resultant Western onslaught in the name of fighting terrorism when they promoted terrorism purposefully in the region, as to why the poor Chinese nationals would be caught in the cross fire and killed randomly in Pakistan when they as a nation remains neutral in the conflict and are known only to promote trade worldwide as opposing to terrorism.
I wish the Honourable ladies a successful event and wish them every success in their professional endeavours including successful visit of the Honourable American Ambassador, who all remain keen observers, astute negotiators and passionate promoters of bilateral trade that we have none at the moment except fighting terrorism together that is now costing too heavily for the region and us the common citizens of Pakistan particularly KPK to which these brave women entrepreneurs belong, that the American government alleges the region to be exporting to the rest of the world, while the terrorism stricken region of KPK in particular believes the American government promotes it as part of their business , the conclusion of the debate better be left to the readers’ own judgement .
