To lead a life without educating oneself about the importance of the past is considered easier to deal with. 
The whole ideology of ‘living for the day’ seems to catch up on all of us. While we make our way living by it, we tend to forget that certain things are worth hanging on to. It becomes a lot easier to sort things once you know your basics, it’s a simple logic we should follow in life. Unfortunately we don’t, let alone learning from others mistakes we don’t even learn from our own. To be able to analyze a situation it is important to know its background. With that in mind there is a lot that needs to be done to educate our people about ‘talebens’
It would be ignorance to support a specific agenda without knowing the evolution and its proposed aims. The history of talibinisation speaks volumes. The tales of Afghanistan under Taleban rule are an open chapter down the history. The afghans have always blamed the Pakistani intelligence to be responsible for grooming ‘talibans’ with the help of CIA. The so-called Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan soon gained a notorious image of ‘terrorist training camps’. Many historians have believed that harboring the Afghans at that point and time wasn’t possibly the best decision to make. The birth of the ‘extreme’ talibans were due to the increased ‘liberal’ customs in Afghanistan. It was a battle between two extreme theologies, at the stake of the nation. The country’s internal matter remained worsening as ‘external’ interference continued to pile up. Nobody seemed to be interested in the constant abuse women, children and the society as a whole suffered through. The stories of abuse were snubbed as Afghanistan’s internal matter. Soon after 9/11 the 
world scenario changed. The emergence of ‘barbarism by talibans’ was painted all over the world. Suddenly making it fair seeming to attack Afghanistan yet again , not only for Osama but for the sake of the ‘afghan’ people. The notorious Pak-Afghan border became yet another shelter for the insurgents. With 9/11 in the backdrop it became almost impossible for Pakistan to hold views opposing American policies. It seemed evident at that time , and can be proved with examples of the conditions now, that Pakistan holds an enormous geographical value for the west. The opium producing Afghanistan has always been an unfortunate nation , where native’s right have been throttled. The mistake of Afghans was to find hope with every rising and downfall , without any strategic approach. It was the usual ‘hate the government’ approach. The hopes build up with every coming government only to perish harder.
There is nothing wrong with hoping for betterment. However there is certainly something called as ‘constructive thinking’. There is always a time to choose and to prefer. For something to be long lasting it is important to maintain moderation. Today Pakistan stands on the crossroads where much has to be done. The easiest way to analyze is to learn from the mistakes of others. The wise learns at the stake of others the fool suffers at the hand of his curiosity. The past stands clear in front of us , allowing us to see the true picture. Will we still let these people commit barbarism in the name of ISLAM yet again?. Are we willing to fall in the same plot ?.The history has began to repeat itself with the world suddenly over-interested about Pakistan’s internal matters that were once not meant to be intervened.
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did you write that yourself? what occurs to me is the indirect aproach you have, for example you want to inform people about the talebans, but u merely imply it.
This is well written, you are right that we have to learn from history and not be repeating old grudges. The latter is not the hardest thing to do, at least it is quite possible to defend a position in a debate without abusing history, by only replying with proportional matter when terms of conflict are raised.
but learning from history is rather a broad and revolutionairy item, history repeats, or will we ever learn, are not very original cravings. When one learns from history to be a pacifist, the next one finds excuse still to arm to the teeth. In that sense perhaps we should learn from modern history, remain proportional and on terms. In fact it means human rights policys and freedom of press/transparance appear to offer some in the way of treating modern history in a modern way. That’s all quite utopian still, for example corruption could worldwide easily be checked, if there just was the will for transparancy. That instead of an international accounting a chaos of wars and contracts exists, shows some about the intentions of the rulers.
Perhaps ruling classes have an intrinsic war with learning from history..at least western european nations have the pretence the public is better served when it does not know what is going on, and it is always one complaint about the other nations for them that these do the same, uniquely. That ofcourse is a covert message on all such media (all media since all nations have ruling classes).
In reality however it seems political entitys are often willing to share lie’s.
for an example irak, deflating the casualties and disaster created there is in both the interest of US, since it makes them seem less of a massmurderer, and it is in the interest of the US-instituted (maliki cs.) parliament, that lacks vindication. It is also in the interest of muslim nations, that don’t want to be portrayed as brutal powerless butchers, and it is in the interest of the ruling classes of so many ‘allies’ and the various satelites and dependency’s, for the same reason. The result is a worldwide consensus of always undereporting all kinds of casualties.
theoretically the state of war with afghanistan may mean every nato-nation is operating the ‘war-time censoring scheme’. I wouldnt be surprised, upon the 1st attack on irak it was anounced the media would ‘maintain the fog of war’ that status has never been redrawn. Even if they don’t it is essentially meaningless,
i don’t think accurate reporting of historical fact has ever been practised (propaganda has always been a fact) and as such i am also convinced historical material is often of less value then it might. Add to this that in principle evrything can be “a statesecret” and may remain classifeid forever, practically untill destruction of the evidence wich is theoretically usualy sooner then later.
I have my very strong doubts about “declassified” material always.
Pakistan internal matters , i don’t know, much depends the measure of agression nato is still applying against the afghani populace, think 21st century, in a certain way the whole situation is only a single bit, and that goes for any decission once it is analysed.
To come out of this mess, the realization of the problem is needed… millions of people in this country still harbour sympathies for taliban & likeness of their brand of Islam. We talk at length about US intrusions & American dictaions. Have we ever wondered abt our internal vested interests, the people who harbour thoughts of Pan Islamic state. We didn’t learn from our mistakes & i tell u we never will till the day we realize that the solution of this mess is within.
Thanks onix for being such a regular visitor and for your detailed comment. yes this is written by me. About the mild and indirect approach it was meant on purpose, you see my writing reflects my perception which is obviously evolved from my surroundings. In Pakistan there are a lot of people that have ‘soft corners’ from Pakistan.In this light its very important to educate our people with the history of taleban. To correct ideologies of those who believe that Talibans follow Islam or are their so called friends , a reality check from the past is extremely important. I don’t believe that one should take ‘dictations’ from history but there is no harm in learning form the mistakes of people . Either ways it is very important that people should know what they are supporting vainly.
@shariq thanks for reading through ,the sole purpose of writing the article runs somewhere along the point you made, that is why I emphasized on ‘educating’ our people. To rehabilitate these people we need to make a mild approach so that it reflects national interest and not ‘self benefit’. Also by taking a mild approach I don’t mean it against the talibans but mean it for people who harbour soft corners for them.
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