Pak Sahafat – The last time the Americans were expelled from Pakistan was a decade ago, when the western invaders killed the Pakistani border guards in Afghanistan, and today, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, they offer to help secure the borders.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report, the plan of the United States to help Islamabad in the fight against terrorism has always been suspected in the political and media circles of Pakistan, and Pakistani thinkers consider it a new ploy for Americans to re-infiltrate the region, including Pakistan.
Washington’s recent offer to Islamabad to finance the security costs of the common border with Afghanistan has caused the concern of the former Pakistani minister, and according to this politician, he is afraid that Washington is looking for a new way for military influence in Pakistan.
Ms. “Shirin Mazari”, a 66-year-old politician from Quetta, Pakistan, and a staunch opponent of America’s aggressive and interventionist policies in the region, says: The recent actions of the Americans at the same time as the new wave of terrorism in Pakistan are very suspicious, and we are worried that the current situation in Pakistan will be the basis for Washington’s re-infiltration under the pretext of helping in the fight against terrorism.
The former Minister of Human Rights and prominent member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf said in an interview with “Urdu News” media: We doubt that a fake scenario is going on to intensify the instability in Afghanistan and at the same time increase the wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, which will pave the way for the US to return to the region, including having a military base in Pakistan.
Referring to the opposition of the former government of Pakistan to any military presence of the United States in the territory of Pakistan and preventing the plan of allocating a base to the United States, he emphasized: Now, Washington is proposing to provide financial assistance to secure Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan, while Pakistan’s army has the necessary capacity and capability to manage borders and guard against terrorist movements.
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Mazari, who accuses the White House of complicity in overthrowing elected governments in other countries, criticized the foreign and defense policy of the current government of Pakistan and added: When Pakistan’s army has enough capability to deal with the insecurities on the common border with Afghanistan, what is the need for America to open its feet to these issues and invite them to the region?
This is while at the end of December of this year General “Michael Eric Korilla”, the commander of US CENTCOM, at the head of a high-ranking American military delegation, met with General “Syed Asim Munir”, the new commander of the Pakistani army, in the city of Rawalpindi. This visit took place a few days after the change of the leadership of the Pakistan Armed Forces.
This is the second visit of the commander of US military forces in the Middle East (CENTCOM) to Pakistan in the last four months. This American general and his accompanying delegation learned about the security situation and developments around it by traveling to the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The background of the expulsion of Americans from Pakistan
Eleven years ago, after the deadly incident in which at least 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed by NATO occupying forces on the country’s border with Afghanistan, Islamabad reacted strongly to the attack of foreign forces led by the United States on Pakistan under the pretext of confronting terrorist elements issued an order to evacuate Shamsi Air Base in Baluchistan province. The Americans had no choice but to leave, and at the end of July 2010, the Shamsi base was cleared of American soldiers.
In the summer of 2013, Pakistan ordered the closure of Shamsi Air Base located in Baluchistan province, and this base was evacuated from the presence of American forces. The deadly attack of NATO helicopters on the border post of the Pakistan Army on the border with Afghanistan on November 26, 2011 and the death of at least 24 Pakistani soldiers angered the political and military leaders of this country, and in response, Islamabad ordered the evacuation of Shamsi Air Base from American troops issued.
Taking a quick look at the relations between the United States and Pakistan in the last two decades, we will realize that many of the behavioral indicators of these two countries are due to strategic requirements, but during these years, Islamabad has always considered Washington’s biased approach in the fight against terrorism and the inadequacy of Pakistan’s actions in this path has been complaining.
The shadow of mistrust on the relations between the two countries continues to weigh heavily despite the current administration in the United States headed by Joe Biden, and rumors indicate that Islamabad is trying to convince Washington to develop bilateral relations beyond the Afghanistan issue and Washington’s security interests in the region.
Pakistanis distrust America
Pakistan, which has been suffering the devastating consequences of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan for more than 2 decades and considers the West’s war against terrorism useless, has now received a new offer from Washington to help manage its borders with Afghanistan.
Deadly attacks by US spy drones in Pakistan during the presence of NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, which continued until 2016, killed hundreds of Pakistani civilians, and Washington insisted that these attacks were carried out in the fight against terrorism.
The political and religious leaders of Pakistan consider the US presence in the region to be the cause of the spread of terrorism and extremism in their country, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 80,000 security forces and civilians in various regions of Iran’s eastern neighbor.
According to a poll, the American presence in Afghanistan not only did not help to control terrorism and violence, but their disgraceful departure from Afghanistan since the summer of last year has increased the phenomenon of terrorism in Pakistan by 51%.
In this situation, the United States has offered to help Pakistan control its borders with Afghanistan and prevent the infiltration of terrorists from the territory of the neighboring country.
Pakistan’s foreign minister, who visited Washington in recent weeks, during a meeting with two senior senators in the US Senate, announced Washington’s readiness to finance the strengthening of Pakistan’s border security with Afghanistan.
Pakistani news sources reported: “Bilawal Bhutto Zardari” said during a meeting with the heads of the Foreign Relations Committee and the Judiciary Committee of the US Senate about the escalation of the situation on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Senator Bob Menendez and Senator Lindsey Graham claimed that the United States has considered financial assistance to Pakistan in its 2023 budget for better management of its borders with Afghanistan and is ready to provide this assistance to Islamabad.
This is while the Minister of Defense of Pakistan recently responded to the proposal of the American side to help fight the challenge of terrorism, especially the recent wave of attacks in Pakistan, and said whether the United States was able to eliminate terrorism and violence in Afghanistan, which now offers to help gives Pakistan
Washington has always conditioned the improvement of cooperation with Islamabad to more actions by the Pakistani side in the fight against terrorism, a matter that Pakistani leaders always refer to as a lever of Washington’s pressure against them.
Pakistan and the United States were once allies, especially during the former Soviet Union’s war with Afghanistan and when Washington launched an attack on Afghanistan, but in recent years, especially with the start of Donald Trump’s administration, there is no news of There is no unity between them.