BBC
may remember the visit of Chief of General Staff, Nicholas Patrick Carter on
13 October 2017. During his visit, he expressed happiness over the destruction
of the TTP centers, secret hideouts, and suicide bomb manufacturing units. He said,
“United Kingdom greatly appreciated Pakistan's sacrifices in this regard”.
General Nicholas termed the actions of Pakistan army a step towards the restoration of peace in the region and assured
British support to Pakistan. On the wish of General Nicholas, he was allowed to
visit tribal areas. Afterward, on 06 April 2018, British Army Chief visited
Pakistan. During his visit, he visited Balochistan especially Pak-Afghan
border. More important for this was the visit of British Army Chief on 16 October
2016 he spent most of his time in tribal areas and said, “It is a great
privilege for me as a head of the British Army to come to Miran Shah, the
Administrative Headquarter of the North Waziristan. I’ve heard so much about
What Pakistan army has been going in this part of the world”.
General
Nicholas’s interest in victories of Pakistan army against terrorists in North
Waziristan and other tribal areas was not without reason. he has served in
Afghanistan in 2001 as a part of the American allied forces. British forces
were responsible for the areas near the Pakistani border. He was well aware that
fighting against the terrorists hiding in the narrow mountains was equivalent
to fighting against the mountains. General Nicholas expressed his feelings in
his visit to Miran Shah. The second reason for his interest was the defeats of the
British Indian army in 1849 in these tribal areas. In one skirmish all British
soldiers except Doctor and local Indian soldiers all were killed by the tribal
fighters. English doctor was left alive so that he may convey the reports that
all British soldiers were killed. Such a defeat British army was experienced in
Mohmand, Khyber Agency and North Waziristan. General Nicholas was also aware
that in spite of attacking tribals on the order of Governor General Lord
Dalhousie why Sir Charles Napier and Sir Colin Campbell preferred to resign.
British Army Chief was well aware that which forces were funding TTP for their
establishing strongholds in Afghanistan. Which international agencies were
providing weapons, training and planning to the terrorists. He was well aware
of the capability of the weapons that were given to the terrorists. Despite all
this, the victory of the Pakistan army against the terrorists was a historical
achievement. For this victory, Pakistan army has sacrificed thousands of soldiers
and officers. These martyrdoms of Pakistani soldiers were the base of the
Pakistan army’s victory against terrorists funded and supported by the
international powers.
BBC
tried to defame Pakistan army and their own General Nicholas by publishing the fabricated
report, “Uncovering Pakistan’s Secret Human Rights Abuses”. The 3 visits of
this General from October 2016 to April 2018 has been reported by BBC itself. These
reports carried the appreciation of Pakistan army. If the BBC has got news of Human
Rights abuses by Pakistan army, then this was the duty of the BBC to disclose
these reports during the visits of their General and appreciation of Pakistan
army. BBC could not report cutting throats of those who opposed TTP, hanging
dead bodies in crossovers, kidnapping young girls from their homes and
murdering those who resisted. BBC should have included the demands of DO MORE
since the American invasion in Afghanistan. BBC should have translated that DO MORE
meant hitting terrorists with flowers so that neither any house was destroyed
nor anyone got hurt. Such flowers should have been provided by BBC that whose
smell converted all terrorists into human loving.
The crime of the Pakistan army is that in spite of destroying tribal areas just like
Americans and their allied wanted, Pakistan army chose difficult and hard to
understand strategy. Before the start of the operation, civilians were shifted
to safe places and afterward the military operation was started. This was
against the plans of America and its allies, especially who had imposed these terrorists
on Pakistan. The goal behind the propaganda and pressure on the Pakistan army to
start operation was that when the Pakistan army will start an attack against the
terrorists hiding in the civilians, locals would be forced to take weapons against
Pakistan army. In this way, in the allegations of attacking Pakistan army, they
could have easily pressurized Pakistan army to protect interests of American
allies especially if Pakistan army to save itself from being trialed under the
allegations of human rights abuses. This also included giving up support of
Kashmiris living under illegal occupation of Indian army. The American demand
to start action against the Haqqani network in tribal areas was just to befool the
world. America was well aware that the Afghan Taliban attacked Americans from
strongholds within Afghanistan.
BBC’s
report might had some credibility if it had not posed Manzoor Pashteen as an
oppressed leader. This report was purposely published after 26 May 2019, on the
day when Mohsin Dawar and Ali Wazir attacked a military check-post with few
miscreants. Five soldiers serving on the check post got injured 1 of them got
martyrdom. In the reciprocal firing 3 persons were killed while 15 were
injured. It was necessary to wash up the negative image of PTM, which was done
by the BBC by fabricating the story of human rights abuses by Pakistan army…
Urdu Copy
Written by Khalid Baig,
Published in Daily Nawa-i-waqt,
Date: 27 June 2019.
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