afganistan refugees and pakistan

The inhumane decision to expel Afghan refugees

What Pakistan does not understand is that the Afghan Taliban in power in Kabul, even if they do not have international recognition, will not do its bidding

विश्व की कुछ घटनाएं

While international attention is focused on Israel’s merciless bombing of Gaza 

and its ground attacks

But Pakistan’s decision to expel 1.5 million undocumented Afghan refugees in the beginning of winter is escaping sufficient global scrutiny.

The Israeli action और इसका पाकिस्तान से संबंध

1 since October 7, has resulted in thousands of deaths, including of infants, and widespread destruction of territory.

2  Even hospitals have not been spared बख्शा. It may therefore be considered inapt अनुचित  to mention the Pakistani decision along with the Israeli action.

क्या क्या असर हो सकता है 

1  The intention is not to compare them but to emphasise that the expulsion of Afghan refugees to an

🍁 uncertain future is unjustified and 

🍁will result in deprivation, 

🍁if not starvation, for many of them. 

2 it is also contrary to the ties of brotherhood that Pakistan claims binds the Afghans with its own people.

3 Significantly, some of the refugees who have been pushed out have lived all their lives in Pakistan. 

Many built businesses, obviously with Pakistani official complicity, which they are being compelled to sell at dirt cheap prices. 

रखी गई कुछ शर्तें और इसका असर

1 This is because Pakistan is permitting departing refugees to take only ₹50,000 with them. 

2 The decision is also particularly harsh for girls who have been studying in Pakistani schools and colleges and will now have to abandon their studies in Afghanistan. 

3 More than two-thirds of the Afghanistan population is facing a humanitarian crisis. 

4 and  Taliban authorities, making arrangements for their incoming compatriots from Pakistan is, as Caroline Gluck of the United Nation Refugee Agency reported on November 17, “a daunting task”.

Pakistan’s frustration with Afghan Taliban

पाकिस्तान क्या सोचता है , और अफगानिस्तान क्या कर रहा है 

While Pakistan is supporting its move as being diplomatically, politically and morally correct

1 But the fact is that this decision has been taken on account of the country’s frustration with the Afghan Taliban administration’s refusal to rein in the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP). 

यह निर्णय अफगान तालिबान प्रशासन द्वारा तहरीक-ए-तालिबान-ए-पाकिस्तान (टीटीपी) पर लगाम लगाने से इनकार करने से देश की निराशा के कारण लिया गया है। 

2 Caretaker Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar told the media on November 8 in Islamabad, 

“After the establishment of the Interim Afghan government in Afghanistan in August 2021, 

we had a strong hope…[that] strict action would be taken against Pakistan-opposing groups, especially the TTP, 

and they would not be allowed to use Afghan soil against Pakistan”. 

3 That hope was unrealistic even though the Pakistani establishment nurtured पाला  the Afghan Taliban for over two decades after they were ousted from Kabul in November 2001.

4  Apart from ideological and ethnic affinities between the Afghan Taliban and the TTP, the former wish to retain the latter as a card against Pakistan. 

All through history, the Afghans have been shrewd practitioners of realpolitik. The Afghan Taliban are no different

पूरे इतिहास में, अफ़गान वास्तविक राजनीति के चतुर अभ्यासी रहे हैं। अफगान तालिबान भी अलग नहीं हैं.

अफगानी लोगों से क्या खतरा ?

1 The Afghan Taliban’s approach towards the TTP has enabled the Pakistani group to increase its attacks on the Pakistani security forces in recent months. 

2 Pakistan claims that terrorist acts in the country have increased by 60% since the Afghan Taliban came to power and that 2,267 Pakistanis have lost their lives in TTP attacks. This is enraging the army. 

3 The Pakistani generals feel that the Afghan Taliban would not been able to carry out their successful struggle against the U.S. and its NATO allies in Afghanistan

 but for the safe havens that Pakistan gave them, and so they should be thankful to Pakistan. 

लेकिन अफगानी क्या सोचते हैं ?

1 Indeed, far from appreciation प्रशंसा  for Pakistan, Afghans feel that the country has used them for its own interests. 

2 Pakistan’s decision on the refugees will only consolidate मजबूत that sentiment.

3 The Afghan Taliban would not be immune from this widespread emotion against Pakistan.

A mutual negativity

Pakistan and Afghanistan’s mutual negativity greatly accelerated once the Soviet-supported communist government came to power in 1978. 

Pakistan became the base camp for the Afghan jihad, which was supported by the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and China. 

The withdrawal of the Soviets in 1989 and the fall of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992 saw Pakistan intervening in Afghan affairs to form a pro-Pakistan Mujahideen government. 

Its efforts were repudiated को अस्वीकार नहीं किया  by the Mujahideen groups, and the Pakistani favourite, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, failed to deliver. Pakistan then turned to the Taliban which had emerged in 1994.

 It helped the Taliban gain control of almost all of the country. After the Taliban were ousted बेदख़ल  from the country in the wake of 9/11, Pakistan ensured that the Taliban insurgency was successful.

What Pakistan does not understand is that the Afghan Taliban in power in Kabul, even if they do not have international recognition, will not do its bidding. 

This includes approaches towards India. Clearly, the refugee expulsion is to create fissures among the Taliban, who are Pashtun. That would not be easy, for there is deep resentment among Afghan Pashtuns against Pakistan.

Source the hindu