Monitoring Desk: “Pakistan is going through the phase of ‘now or never’ and it is time to fix priority that Pakistan comes first instead of accepting the cliché that Pakistan’s peace is linked with peace in Afghanistan because Islamabad had been compromising Pakistan’s interests and receiving horrific terrorism in a quest for bringing peace in Kabul”.
This was indicated in an article titled ‘Our priority — Afghanistan or Pakistan?’ published by Express Tribune on Wednesday.
The author of the article fears that journalists who had been the mouthpieces of the Afghan Taliban in the past due to their allegiance with Afghanistan and might have their share in the gigantic smuggling business linked with Afghanistan would protect the interests of the Afghan Taliban instead of their loyalty to Pakistan. The author further feared that certain elements within the state machinery might also help those who are waging terrorism inside Pakistan because such elements are religiously inspired or influenced by the Taliban kind of administrative structure.
“Since we know that Afghanistan launched terrorism against Pakistan, have the State’s media managers released any toolkit (sensitive but credible information about operations against Pakistan launched by the Afghan interim government) to journalists? As a student of Philosophy of Communication, I believe the State should come out of shyness and share that yesteryear’s ‘heroes’ are adversaries and their target is now Pakistan after winning Afghanistan back with the help of many among us. Furthermore, the State must keep an eye on those narrative builders in our media. Without general overhauling in media management, Pakistan may not win this war of narrative and communication. The author added that the State had already seen the reaction of these pro-Afghanistan security experts against Pakistan when the authorities clamped down on the Pak-Afghan border smuggling.
