The War on Terror should have been on Pakistan, not Afghanistan

The concept of America's 'War on Terror' began on 11 September 2001 with the collapse of the World Trade Centre in New York. It was Al-Qaeda that claimed responsibility of the attacks and America swung into action and prepared to invade Afghanistan which was the stronghold of the Al-Qaeda network.

America however forgot that Pakistan that neighbours Afghanistan has more terrorist camps and organisations than all the terrorist groups put together in the world. The US along with its allies should have taken time to identify the real threat to the free world. 

Logically a nuclear armed Pakistan that harboured terrorist was more dangerous to the world than the terror groups in Afghanistan. But America instead made its biggest mistake in choosing Pakistan as the top ally on the war on terror. George Bush the then US President had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" after the September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on Afghanistan. 

General Pervez Musharraf was stunned at the bluntness of the US in delivering the threat to a soverign country. Musharraf had no choice but to allow U.S. and allied forces to make Pakistan their base and mount operations into Afghanistan.

WAR ON TERROR SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON PAKISTAN, WHY?
- First of all Al-Qaeda's top leader and the world's most wanted man 'Osama Bin Laden' was found in Pakistan by US Special Forces protected by none other than the Pakistani Army. 

- The top three most wanted on the US most wanted terrorist list are all in Pakistan.

- The successor to Osama Bin Laden is also believed to be hiding in Pakistan with assistance from ISI and the Pakistani Army inside a closed military area.

- Pakistan today has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world and has been found guilty of preliferating nuclear weapons to rogue states like North Korea & Iran. It's just a matter of time before they fall into the hands of Islamic terrorists groups.

- The People of Pakistan have been completely radicalised and the population of the country has deep rooted anti-US sentiments. They have zero tolerance towards any other faith or religion other than the Islam. To top it up, Pakistan has the highest Islamic population growth rate in the entire Asian continent with no bright future. 


If the United States and its allies had invaded Pakistan instead of Afghanistan and neutralised its nuclear arsenal, installed a stable government and integrated Pakistan's economy with the mainstream financial sectors then the world today would have been a much safer place.
                                                                         by - defencenews.in