When you fight an enemy, you expect him/ her to be bound or obliged by some sort of norms. But what to do when you fight animals in the disguise of humans. Regret on use of such harsh words but what do you think of an enemy who is filled with such hatred that he feels no hesitation or shame on sending an eight year old innocent girl on a suicide bombing mission. Afghan police stopped a girl, apparently in a state of shock and confusion, entering a border police check post in Helmand province – she was wearing a suicide vest; couldn’t operate the button to detonate the explosives she was wearing to blow herself along with soldiers in the check post.
Afghan and Pakistani Taliban are not only active using brain washed children on suicide bombing missions but also ensuring a generation of handicapped and crippled children become the symbol of these countries. Anti-polio vaccination campaigns are bound to fail in Pakistan’ tribal areas and other parts of the country wherein Pashtuns are residing. This not only includes remote rural areas of KPK province but also urban centers such as Karachi. Brutal attacks on health workers and those on duty for their security are forcing polio teams to abandon the campaigns. Perhaps we will never know for whom Afghan and Pakistani Taliban are working. Apparently they are on a self-destruction mode, but are ensuring they destroy everyone else who don’t subscribe to their ideology.
MASOOD KHAN
Saudi Arabia