The moral ground
By Fakir S. Ayazuddin August 29, 2008 While we allow the US to play us to suit there own ends, in the Great Game, wherein they have succeeded in destroying what was left by the Russians, of Afghanistan, till today that country is an empty deserted shell of pockmarked buildings, doorless and windowless, and a deadly minefield, killing and maiming hundreds of Afghans, mostly children. After 9/11, Musharraf did their bidding, while giving room to the militants to establish themselves firmly in the Northern areas, having been convinced by them that they in return would ensure his remaining in power. The US thinking otherwise encouraged the secular ANP to emerge as the weak majority. With the PPP and the PML-N playing their own power games in the centre.




