When Donald Trump was making gaffe after gaffe during his presidential campaign for the White House earlier this year, the American and world media was pinning hopes on his deputy called Mike Pence billing him as the voice of sanity in the Republican’s camp. He, however, sounded the sanity past perfect when during a visit to Afghanistan on Friday, he stepped into the shoes of his White House boss and hurled an ugly warning in an anti-diplomatic tone that President Donald Trump had now “put Pakistan on notice”.
Is Pakistan a junior level employee in a corporate office where the US is its boss?
A day before, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, in anti-diplomatic tone, warned the countries and the Nation Nations that the US would remind them when it chips in its largest share for the world body.
Sigh. Period.
Even before it, the American president has hurled warnings on the North Korean administration, Iran, Syria and the Muslim world. Now, his deputy warned Pakistan not to provide safe havens to terrorists and that Donald Trump had put Pakistan on notice. The US vice president made the remarks while addressing US troops at the Bagram airfield. He should have, however, put the troops’ commanders on notice for not winning the war despite having the most sophisticated warfare against the not-so-trained Afghan Taliban. The American vice-president should have put the Afghan authorities on notice for their failure to seal the Afghan-Pak border areas. He should have issued a final notice to the operators of drones for their failure to track and get the militants who cross from Pakistan into Afghanistan dodging the most modern technology. He could have found several people in the CIA and Pentagon worthy of getting noticed for their failures in the Afghan battlefield. The longest war of America can provide Mike Pence a plenty of people worthy of notices.
When the Christmas and New Year holidays are over and the American administration is back to work, the Pakistan Foreign Office should reach their counterparts in America and explain to them what Pakistan has done, and what has been doing since the inception of the war, and remind them of their part of the job. Also, Pakistan should mail a list of the culprits in the American side who deserves to be put on notice.
But in war and love, such notices hardly work.
A day earlier, when the whole world snubbed Nikki Hale for her threats to put the countries on notice, Pakistan should have shrugged off the American warning. But the Pakistani Foreign Office took to the diplomatic path and reminded the superpower that allies are not put on the watch list. Does the Trump administration understand this tone?
No. Never. Nada.
Pakistan should accelerate its efforts to eradicate terrorism and extremism from its soul regardless of what the world says. This war is in the benefit of Pakistan and if Pakistan win, the whole world will stand by us.
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