This cartoon published today in Dawn shows how much the international community is concerned about the Afghan women and children after having crushed them for decades like a nut in the jaws of the nut cracker.
A progressive Afghanistan under King Ghazi Aman Ullah Khan, who was toppled through the religious zealots declaring him Kafir by the British as reprisal for declaring his nation’s independence from the colonial yoke. Ever since, every super power of its time has rubbed the poor Afghanistan and the Afghans the wrong way .
Afghans were not only bled to death militarily but economically yet being a resilient nation they took the reins of their own destiny back from the so – called developed world. The ones having no remorse or regret for millions of the Afghan killed, maimed and displaced creating the Afghan diaspora scattered across all continents, yet the West continues to shed crocodile tears over the human rights violations, as if, freezing of billions of the Afghan dollars, legally, lawfully and legitimately belonging to the Afghan nation does not come under the ambit of the so – called human rights violation of these hapless mothers and their hungry children, who are denied food, while the international watch dogs such as UN engage into the head counts of the hungry mouths to raise false alarm regarding their sufferings while doing nothing practical to ameliorate .
It is heartening to see the economically crippled Afghans gradually standing on their own feet without the western crutches, while the neighbouring Pakistan continues to be bled to death by the lenders whose money brought more miseries to the nation than any relieve or respite in their everyday lives that is getting from bad to worst with every passing day and every changing faces whose strings remains in someone’s else hands . Iran was similarly bled economically by the exploitative western powers till they declared their independence what the world called Revolution and today enabled breathe freely as a nation unconcerned by the western world threats that even Afghans have learnt to live with. It is much better for the Afghans to live in a stone age than be amongst the stone hearted capitalist exploiters that would ensure they are buried under the boulders of economic exploitation one way or the other with no say of their own to run their own affairs, safeguarding their own interests than to die protecting someone’s else interest like in the Pakistani scenario.
Only time will tell when the western world makes a complete mess of Pakistan and then lament its sufferings that none other but they themselves are orchestrating and imposing on the nation that suffered irreparable losses both economic and human in their friendship and unholy alliance in the war of terror that took the nation nowhere except gifted them with all-round- destruction . Both Afghanistan and Afghans are lucky on this count to be on their own then dependent on others like us for their survival. Long Live Pakistan Enslaved By Foreign Masters 🇵🇰