Saturday, December 13, 2008

Who is behind attacks on NATO vehicles?

Who is behind attacks on NATO vehicles?



Hafiz SANAULLAH

Nobody knows who is behind the rocket and missile attacks on Afghanistan based NATO forces supply line in Peshawar. It is yet to be determined. Latest was the seventh attack. Who knows it would not touch the figure of 17th of Mehmood of Ghaznavi’s attacks on India? Ears in Peshawar are now used to these big bangs of missiles the way tribesmen are familiar with drones’ missiles. The difference is that drones missile attacks kill (civilian tribesmen) and rocket attacks burn containers. Thanks to Bush’s White House and of course not Obama’s White House, whose front line friendship’s spill over to Pakistan seems to be going on the direction towards India to envelop the subcontinent.

It took half a century and a decade but neither the Indian nor Pakistani leadership could learn any lesson from the past history of imperialists divide and rule policy. For half a century White House kept the fire of enmity burning between Pakistan and India to warm its own hands in cold (war with Russia).

Now signs are visible about US designs to get India pitched against Pakistan to continue this enmity for the next half a century. US has destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan and now out to disrupt peace in Pakistan. It would not stop here. It would go on beyond Waga border. That is what the most hated US President Bush wanted. He deserves “sympathies” for having failed in his evil designs. Even then he did not take a minute to mislead his successor on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now only Obama can repair the cracks appearing in US global image and bridge the gap between US and Islamic world.

What I wanted to tell my readers is that Ring Road was constructed around Peshawar city and cantonment areas and the outskirts with the sole purpose to ease the traffic flow. The land became so valued that people started moving from city-congested localities to their newly built residential houses on Ring Road. The latest missile and rocket attacks and blasting of petrol bombs in different terminals of containers has not only blocked the supply of goods and weapon to Afghanistan based NATO forces, but developed the sense of insecurity among the people on Ring Road. It directly hit the prices of the residential land in the market.

Earlier when rockets hit Peshawar posh but the worst insecure locality of Hayatabad and missiles several boards of “For Sale” were seen erected on residential houses here and there. Not only this about 35 percent declines in the prices of plots did not go unnoticed.

When the war against terror began NATO forces were supplied goods and weapon from terminals in Jamrud in Khyber agency. These terminals were shifted to Ring Road after a series of attacks on Afghanistan bound caravan of containers.

During the last few days nearly 300 vehicles were burned in four different big terminals. The total damage is estimated at Rs 50 billion or even more. Goods and weapons were supplied by sea and downloaded in containers in Karachi. From there the containers set off to Chaman in Baluchistan and to Peshawar in NWFP via Punjab.

The TV Channel 5 asked me as to who is behind this. I said it is too early to say without evidence. But here different people are saying differently. On version is that it is Taliban who wanted to cut the supply line of NATO forces. Others say that it has Indian hand to prove justification of NATO forces intervention in Pakistan. Both do have point.

But what has bewildered the people is the name of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf tossed up in rocket attacks on terminal on Ring Road. If true it is the stunning clue surfaced on the earth. Here Frontier newspapers were sold like hot cake on the day they published a story about General Musharraf’s Bhanja (sister’s son). These newspapers reported that the contract was awarded to Musharraf’s Bhanja to supply goods, vehicles and weaponry from US to Karachi and onward to Afghanistan for NATO forces after stocked in Al Faisal Terminal, Bilal Terminal, World Port Logistic Godown and other terminals.

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