Many Pakistanis were rightly shocked when a couple of days back the Afghan authorities instead of handing over the dead body of SP Tahir Dawar to Pakistani authorities handed it over to a tribal jirga at the Pak-Afghan border. The said police officer was kidnapped from the federal capital to Afghanistan where he was murdered. Leaving aside the question as who were his killers and why was he murdered, Kabul should have handed over his body to Pakistan’officials instead of handing it over to tribal jirga as it amounted to the insult of Pakistan government.
It goes without saying that right from day one after the creation of this country Afghanistan has been playing second fiddle to India. Time was when in cahoots with New Delhi the Afghan rulers bankrolled the so-called Pakthunistan bogey in the KPK. There are instances galore when they tried to foment trouble in the tribal territory bordering KPK through some of their paid agents in the then FATA who were on their pay rolls and in whose names the Afghan rulers had allotted costly property and fruit orchards in Afghanistan. The loyal tribesmen, however, the majority of whom were pro-Pakistani, foiled their attempts to destabilise the tribal territory and the KPK.
Had Pakistan established permanent border posts on the Durand Line soon after 1947 and regulated entry of the Afghans into its soil through a passport and visa system things would not have come to such a pass. Better late than never. The task undertaken by the Army to fence border line should be taken to its logical conclusion and it should never be stopped in the mid way due to any political expediency, otherwise, all good work done hitherto would go down the drain. No Afghan national be allowed entry into Pakistan without passport and visa.
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