| by Ali Sukhanver
( December 20,
2012, Islamabad, Sri Lanka Guardian) While going through the details of suicide
attack on Asadullah Khalid, the Intelligence Chief of Afghanistan, one feels
that Khalid was strolling somewhere in a public park or enjoying a cup of hot
Afghani Qahwa in a café along some deserted highway; he was not at a guesthouse
used by the National Directorate of Security in a heavily guarded area of the
capital Kabul. How could it had been possible for a suicide bomber to introduce
himself as a peace messenger from Taliban and reach the Intelligence Chief
deceiving all security check-points if Asadullah Khalid were really at the National Directorate of
Security. The incident no doubt puts a question mark at the abilities and
talents of the Afghan security forces as well as at those of the NATO. The time
when the US troops were stepping into the Afghan lands, the US authorities were
of the opinion that Afghanistan is suffering badly at the hands of the
terrorists and the Afghan security forces don’t have ability to counter the
terrorist activities. That time they had assured the people of Afghanistan that
the only aim of the US forces is to strengthen the Afghan security forces so
that they might be able to counter the activities of the terrorists. Now at the
end of 2012, the suicidal attack on the Intelligence Chief of Afghanistan is a
proof that the Afghan security forces are still incapable of countering the
terrorists. It means the situation would become horribly disastrous if the US
forces say good-bye to the Afghan lands.
The fact of the matter is that the US conspirators are trying their utmost to find out some lame excuses which could provide logical justification for extension in the stay of US troops in Afghanistan. It is neither Pakistan nor the Taliban behind the assassination attempt on Asadullah Khalid, it is the handiwork of the US agents who are all time busy in disturbing the law and order situation both in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The suicide
attack on the Afghan Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid is simply the
beginning of another story in Afghanistan. Khalid was targeted when a suicide
bomber struck at a guesthouse used by the National Directorate of Security
(NDS) in a heavily guarded area of the Afghan capital Kabul. The incident took
lives of many officials present at the scene and left Khalid seriously wounded.
Just at the closing of 2012, almost a year before the US proposed date of
withdrawal of her troops from the Afghan lands, this incident indicates
countless possibilities and probabilities, unfortunately all referring to an
extension in US stay in Afghanistan. According to the details, the suicide
bomber posed himself as a peace messenger from Taliban and exploded him during
the negotiations but most of the analysts are not ready to accept these
details.
The concocted
stories of befooling the officials of Afghan security and NATO are nothing new.
There have been so many occasions when different so-called imposters approached
Afghan and NATO officials and claimed that they are the representative of the
Taliban and have come to settle matters through table-talk and negotiations
though the actual Taliban leaders have always maintained their firm public line
that they would never consider any negotiations or table-talk until foreign
troops leave Afghanistan. Let us look back at a report published in the New
York Times on 22nd November 2010 which said the Afghan and US authorities held
face-to-face talks with a man who claimed to be Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour,
the second highest official in the Taliban movement .but later on it was
exposed that the man was lying about his identity. Just after the revelation
was made public through western media, Joshua Foust commented the episode in a
very logical and impressive way. He says, “The story is moderately shocking: a
senior Taliban figure was being flown around the region, talking directly with
General Petraeus, President Karzai, and other senior figures in the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Afghan government. Think
about this for a moment: a man whose identity no one was able to verify was
flown, by NATO, for face-to-face meetings with high-ranking members of the
coalition. All this is hugely embarrassing for ISAF, for the war, and for any
prospects of ending it soon.” Now two years after that episode, same seems the
case with the suicide bomber who attacked Asadullah Khalid, the Intelligence
Chief of Afghanistan. This ‘incident’ was planned just to defame the Taliban
and Pakistan and to give the world around a deceptive impression that the situation
in Afghanistan is still so frightening that even the Intelligence Chief is not
safe at the hands of the terrorists.
The fact of the
matter is that the US conspirators are trying their utmost to find out some
lame excuses which could provide logical justification for extension in the
stay of US troops in Afghanistan. It is neither Pakistan nor the Taliban behind
the assassination attempt on Asadullah Khalid, it is the handiwork of the US
agents who are all time busy in disturbing the law and order situation both in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. Instead of taking care of his own people,
unfortunately Mr. Karzai is also playing in the hands of these agents and
safeguarding the US interests in the region. Everyone remembers that just after
the suicide attack on Asadullah Khalid, Mr. Karzai abruptly issued his
statement in which he blamed that the assassination attempt on the country's
intelligence chief was planned in Pakistan. He said, “We will be seeking a lot
of clarifications from Pakistan because we know that this man who came there in
the name of a guest to meet with Asadullah Khalid came from Pakistan." The
situation needs a very sympathetic and sincere analysis. Afghanistan could
never be a peaceful land unless the foreign troops say farewell to it. Only the
people of Afghanistan have ability and skill of dragging Afghanistan back to
peace and prosperity and Pakistan is the only force which could give a helping
hand to the people of Afghanistan in this regard.
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