By Haider Abbas
The US president Donald Trump is in his last lap and he is contesting the US elections results in Supreme Court of US. It is not sure as to whether Trump would take to office again or Joseph Biden swears to it on January 21, 2021. The biggest hurdle which tends to hog the US political landscape is the question of withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, which Biden does not want, but nevertheless even in the Biden era, US is all set to get to a permanent station in India, after BECA, through which it would provide real-time ‘intelligence and surveillance’ reports to India to meet to the joint-threat to China and Pakistan. Hence, whatever drama is to ensue in Afghanistan, there is but one surety; US will remain in Afghanistan’s neighborhood if not inside it.
It has never been in the history of US that its president has exposed the ‘ways-and-means’ of his own ‘deep-state’ that is CIA, FBI and Pentagon by calling that Pentagon wants to keep the war-contractors happy and does not want US to disengage from Afghanistan. He referred that US establishment had fudged all the number of deaths in US as victims in COVID-19 category and even lambasted the killing of Osama Bin Laden as ‘fraud’ of the erstwhile Obama administration which has been no doubt the biggest trophy of US so far in recent quarter of a century. Therefore, even if a change of guard takes place in US, and it abdicates Afghanistan, there have been enough sings that the incumbent Biden would decide to push the controversial security contractor ‘Blackwaters’ to stay-put in Afghanistan, as that is what the advertisements ‘We Are Coming’, according to Military.Com on Jan 9, 2019 have suggested,
In order to shore up the late-term priorities, Trump after consultations over an attack on Iran, sent his point-man Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state to a seven European nations tour along with Middle-East during which he made his first halt at Doha, Qatar, on November 22, 2020, to meet Afghan-Taliban (AT) head of political office Mulla Baradar, as a mark of proof about US commitment over its withdrawal from Afghanistan, where after the latest move, US would be left with only 2500 of its soldiers and they too are slated to return by the mid of 2021. Trump had already once accorded that AT are ‘very-tough-people’.
As quite understood, there has been a great war game played in anticipation to US ‘moving-out’ with Ashraf Ghani government at the helm and AT all set to take over, as a consensus over it seem much far to arrive. Ghani wants to keep ‘intelligence’ department under his thumb which AT finds otherwise apart from other blocks too. Pakistan PM Imran Khan dashed to Kabul on November 19, 2020, where Pakistan national song was also played as a mark of protocol perhaps for the first time in the last two-decades. This is his maiden visit to Afghanistan and also a strategic message that he is visiting Ghani when Ghani’s government is ‘only a matter of days’. While Imran Khan vowed to do everything for peace and stability. Ghani on his side might be quite handicapped as Daesh and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) may ‘unleash it all’ inside Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan too, as came the latest claim, when Daesh fired 23 rockets inside Kabul, which ironically came when the meeting between Pompeo and Mulla Baradar was underway. The events are surely leading towards a grim scenario where Afghanistan would be a dueling-battle-ground even when Ghani bows out for AT to takeover. The analysts were assuming as if Trump had made friends with AT but diplomacy is the ‘art of the possible’, and Pompeo while on his tour to Israel, on November 20, 2020 visited Christian Zionist museum run by Mike Evans who has been extremely supportive of Trump during the polls. Thus, making it clear that destruction of Muslim lands whether it be Iraq or Afghanistan is what makes to US foreign policy with the ultimate objective of the supremacy of Jewish state of Israel. As for Pakistan it lost around hundred thousand of its forces fighting the US ‘war on terror’. Let’s see what happens after January 21, 2021 when a change of guard happens in US or remains the same.
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All they see is own selfish comfort and wouldn’t care less of the Afghanis, Syrians, Yemenis, Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingya or the Chinese Uighyurs!
Only Allah can jolt them out of their dream-world of heedlessness.
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