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NATO convoys and truckers

The route for NATO convoys transporting supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistan is too treacherous and deadly. There is nothing on the overland route from Karachi to Attock while from Peshawar to Khyber Pass the route becomes treacherous and deadly for truckers. This is beyond one’s intellect as to why these things take place in that area. �On August 06, 2012 an Afghan driver, carrying supplies for NATO was shot dead by suspected militants in Khyber Agency’s Jamrud Tehsil on the Peshawar-Torkham highway. Reportedly this is the second attack in the same area since the route reopened. The first incident took place on July 24, 2012 in which a similar modus operandi was used by the militants. The so-called Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) left the 1,500 kilometers area from Karachi to Attock but made its sit in headquarter in the 140 kilometer from Peshawar to Torkham. Some give it name of Tsunami and some call it Defa-e-Pakistan and some label it blow to America, but the question is that how long the Pashtuns of tribal belt, who historically are Afghans would be used in Pakistan’s broader foreign policy game. And how long their land and routes would be victim of Tsunami, Thisnami, and Thatnami? To them it seems that as if the containers have swelled out in Khyber Agency or have come across from Bolan not coming from Karachi via Attock. Many are caught by surprise that how this Tsunamis is gushing out from that bleak and barren land where there is no vista of ocean or river—then why Imran Khan, resident of Lahore, leave his area and comes to Peshawar to stage his drama against NATO supplies in Peshawar Hayatabad. Why Jamat-e-Islami leader Maulana Munnawwar Hasan comes to Khyber Agency to stage his drama against NATO supply? Why doesn’t do it in his own city—Karachi the real center of NATO containers? For them all why this ill-fate land of tribal Pashtuns is a center of Islam? Can they give us answers of this question that where are other Pakistanis, who call themselves Muslims and anti-America? Why such protest demos are not held in Lahore, where the founder of Jamat-e-Islami Maulana Maudidi has been buried and where they have the biggest centre Mansura and Ichra? To all these questions there is only one simple answer. Their military generals and their security establishment don’t want such anti-NATO and anti-America protests in cities of Lahore, Karachi and Faisalabad because they are their financial and commercial hubs and don’t want to disturb its peace and economy, which is why Imran Khan, Munawwar Hassan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq or other charlatans are not let to do their dramas there rather they are being directed to turn their faces towards Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Khyber Agency. Though the shadowy Abdullah Abdullah Azzam Brigade has claimed responsibility for the attacks but they are just puppets, visible to spectators on screen, while their threads are hold by someone else hands sitting in dark. Now they have changed their tactics as some assailants on motorbikes ambushed the convey, killing a driver. Before the closure of the route convoys had also come under attacks but previously they were attacked by militants but with rockets. Whereas now they have started killing and intimidating the drivers. It shows one bleak failure and that’s the main issue as well—the lack of coordination between different law enforcement agencies active in the area. To come up with a new plan, the US and NATO can ask for access and control of the route as the nexus of Pakistan’s security establishment with militants and connivance of law enforcement agencies in this deadly game is responsible for the attacks on the NATO convoys and killings of Afghan drivers. And when the militants have changed their modus operandi so should the United States and NAOT bring change in their mechanism for their convoys and the safety of the truckers.