Too Dangerous to Say
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd.)
Westridge, Rawalpindi
Ever since $1.5 billion were given by a ’friendly’ country and high profile kings and monarchs of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain started visiting Pakistan rumor mills in the country have gone head over heels in churning out all kinds of tell-tale stories, gossips and speculations – some too dangerous to be realized by them in their sheer naivety and ignorance of the gravity of the matter.
Some of the whiz kids have speculated of our troops being dispatched to Syria and Bahrain to fight the insurgents. The govt. has categorically denied that no such request was made by the Saudis or the Bahrain King and even if it was made Pakistan had no intention of sending its troops to these countries. That should have put the matter to rest but the ‘wise men’ of our media keep haranguing that there is never a free lunch in this world and as such MNS who has a personal equation with the Sheikhs might send the troops to Syria and Bahrain.
What is more dangerous than sending the troops is the view advanced by our so-called idiot box ‘intellectuals’ that the insurgencies in Syria and Bahrain are sectarian-based and in both countries Pakistani troops will have to fight against the Shiites – in Bahrain to help the Sunni King against the majority Shiite populace being aided by Iran, and in Syria to assist the Sunni rebels against the Alavi (a Shia sub-sect) dictator Bashar al Asad. For God's sake, stop this nonsense. Do not raise the possibility of Pakistan army fighting for the Sunnis or the Shias. By the grace of Allah Almighty never for a second has such a thought crossed the mind of any Pakistani soldier. There are no Shias or Sunnies in our army. Not only that, there are no Ahmedis, Christians, Parsis, Hindus and of late even the martial blooded Sikhs in our army. They are all one and the same, not in the religious sense but as defenders of Pakistan. Troops never fight and kill anyone on the basis of sect or beliefs. They are there to restore the writ of the govt. Had it not been so, the Muslim troops would not have killed some time back Yemini Muslim terrorists right inside the Haram Sharif Kaaba and the Indian Sikh Lieutenant General Kuldip Singh Brar would have never desecrated Durbar Sahib (Golden Temple) Amritsar by taking his tanks inside to kill Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala.
Please, please, say no more about the Pakistan army (armed forces) killing and fighting any particular sect or people.
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