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18 August Dawn Editorial with Meaning & Translation

Afghan dilemma ‫افغان مخم‬
‫ اور‬، ‫ا ل پر ق ضہ ک و دو سال گزر چ ہ‬ ‫افغان طال ان‬
TWO years have lapsed‫ ختم و گ ا‬since the Afghan ‫ جس قوم سازی ا‬، ‫مغر حما ت افتہ حکومت گھل گ‬
Taliban took Kabul, and the Western-backed ‫مغر‬ ‫ ا رچہ طال ان اس‬،‫ا ک ط ل اور مہن ا تج ہ ختم و گ ا ۔ تا م‬
‫ حما ت افتہ‬government melted away, bringing to a ‫ا اظہار کر‬ ‫اس خو‬ ‫ افغان عوام‬، ‫موقع پر جشن منا ر ہ‬
close a lengthy and expensive nation-building ‫ل بہت م ۔‬
experiment. However, while the Taliban may be
‫عد‬ ‫حم‬ ‫ا رچہ یہ سچ کہ سوو ت حم اور عد م ام‬
celebrating the occasion, the Afghan people have
‫ طال ان‬، ‫افغا ستان م مسلسل شدد د کھ م آ ر ا‬
little to cheer about.
‫انتہا قدامت سند ورژن کو عوام پر نافذ‬ ‫ح مرا‬ ‫اپ مذ‬
‫ ج کہ ب اﻻقوا تنہا اور ط ل عر‬، ‫کرنا جاری رکھا وا‬
‫جاری خشک سا ا سامنا ۔ افغان عوام کو غ ت م مبتﻼ کر‬
‫خاص طور پر ا ل سخت گ ح مرانوں‬ ‫د ا ۔ خوات‬
While it is true that the relentless‫ل ام‬ violence ‫ خاص طور پر‬، ‫طرف ان محدود آزادیوں کو چھین د کھا‬
Afghanistan has been witnessing since the Soviet ‫م حصہ لی ا حق۔‬ ‫تعل م حاصل کر اور معا‬
invasion and later the American invasion has come ،‫ جب سعودیوں‬،‫چھ دور برعکس‬ ‫طال ان حکومت‬
down considerably, the Taliban continue to enforce ‫اماراتیوں اور ا ستان مل ش ا کو جائز افغان ح مرانوں طور پر‬
their ultraconservative‫ انتہا قدامت سند‬version of ‫ آج طال ان کو کو ا سا مل نہ ملتا جو انہ سل م‬،‫سل م ک ا‬
religious rule upon the populace, while international ‫ اور‬،‫ل ت ار و۔ ان ا ا سا حقوق ا مایوس کن ر ارڈ‬ ‫کر‬
isolation and a long-running drought have inflicted ‫زم پر تمام د شت گرد گرو وں خﻼف ارروا کر‬ ‫اپ‬
‫ ب اﻻقوا شناخت راه م ر اوٹ کھڑی کر ر‬، ‫م نا ا‬
crushing poverty on the Afghan people. Women in
‫ہ ۔‬
particular have seen their limited freedoms
snatched by the hard-line rulers of Kabul, especially ‫۔ اس‬ ‫طال ان جت جلدی ان خدشات کو دور ک ں اتنا بہ‬
the right to get an education and participate in ‫اوجود ا سا ل تا کہ قندھار م سخت گ ق ادت کو ا ل م‬
society. ‫معامﻼت پر و ٹو ا غلبہ‬ ‫س است دانوں اور عمل ت سندوں پر ا‬
‫حاصل ۔ ا سا ل تا کہ قندھار علما افغا ستان کو قرون‬
Unlike during the previous period of Taliban ‫ارادے پر ہ ۔ افسوس ات کہ‬ ‫وس ٰ م وا س گھس ٹ‬
governance, when the Saudis, Emiratis and Pakistan ‫ٹ دھر ا افغان عوام پر ت اه کن اثر پڑ ر ا ۔‬ ‫ان‬
recognised the militia as the legitimate Afghan
rulers, today the Taliban find no country willing to
extend recognition to them. Their dismal human
rights record, and failure to act against all terrorist
groups on their soil, are the key stumbling ‫ٹھوکر کھا ر ا‬
blocks standing in the way of international
recognition.

The sooner the Taliban address these concerns, the

better; yet the hard-line leadership in Kandahar
appears to have a dominating veto on such matters
over politicians and pragmatists‫ عمل ت سند‬in Kabul.
The clerics in Kandahar seem intent on dragging
Afghanistan back to the Middle Ages. Sadly, their
intransigence ‫ح‬ is having a devastating effect
on the Afghan people.

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The Red Cross says 28.8m Afghans are in urgent
need of humanitarian assistance, while the UN has
observed that 15.3m people in the country face ‫ مل افغانوں کو فوری طور پر‬28.8 ‫ر ڈ کراس ا کہنا کہ‬
acute food insecurity. The Taliban, therefore, need ‫ جب کہ اقوام متحده مشاہده‬، ‫ورت‬ ‫ا سا امداد‬
to reconsider their obstinate‫ ضد کر واﻻ‬stance so ‫شد د عدم‬ ‫ مل افراد کو خورا‬15.3 ‫ک ا کہ مل م‬
that help can easily reach their devastated ‫تحفظ ا سامنا ۔ ٰلہذا طال ان کو اپ ضدی موقف پر نظر‬
countrymen. ‫ورت تا ہ مدد ان ت اه حال م وطنوں‬ ‫ثا کر‬
‫پہنچ س ۔‬ ‫تک آسا‬

‫ا ر ا ل ح مران ا سا حقوق صورتحال کو بہ بنا‬

If Kabul’s rulers were to improve the human rights ‫ اور اقوام عالم کو ق‬- ‫ل‬ ‫ خاص طور پر خوات‬- ‫ہ‬
situation — especially for women — and assure ‫ق‬ ‫ل‬ ‫زم د شت گردوں م ا‬ ‫دﻻ ہ کہ ان‬
‫ دﻻنا‬the comity of nations that their soil will not be ‫ تو عال سطح پر سل م ک ا جا سکتا‬، ‫جا‬ ‫استعمال نہ‬
used to host terrorists, global recognition could be ‫ دن ا‬، ‫وت‬ ‫ جب تک یہ دونوں توقعات پوری نہ‬،‫۔ تا م‬
forthcoming. However, as long as both these ‫و الت‬ ‫و‬ ‫م بہت م لوگ طال ان ساتھ م سل‬
expectations‫ توقعات‬remain unmet, few in the world ‫کر کو ت ار وں ۔‬
will be willing to advocate for engaging‫ مشغول‬the
Taliban. ‫عال برادری‬ ‫ ا ستان ط ل عر‬،‫مثال طور پر‬
‫اوجود‬ ‫ اس‬، ‫ات چ ت ا مطالبہ ک ا‬ ‫طال ان‬
‫و ہ ۔ ل کن‬ ‫ار م اس خدشات دور نہ‬
‫ دن ا ﻻ ھوں افغانوں کو بھوک‬،‫س ا پ ش رفت قطع نظر‬
Pakistan, for example, has long called upon the ‫ل نہ چھوڑ سک ۔‬ ‫اور موت ا سامنا کر‬
world community to talk to the Taliban, yet its
concerns about the TTP remain unaddressed. But
‫ل افغان عوام مدد جاری رکھ‬ ‫چ‬ ‫مش ل وقت‬
regardless‫ قطع نظر‬of political developments, the
‫ افغان مرکزی ب نک ار وں ڈالر جو‬، ‫چا ۔ اس سلس م‬
world cannot leave millions of Afghans to face
‫ جاری ک جائ‬، ‫ﻼ ک جا ر ہ‬ ‫کہ ام کہ طرف‬
starvation and death.
‫ ادو ات اور د گر وری‬، ‫تا ہ افغان آ ادی خورا‬
‫ور ات پوری و سک ۔ افغا ستان عوام اپ مل‬
‫ نہ کہ ان ح مرانوں‬، ‫تعم نو ا ک موقع مستحق ہ‬
‫م نظر ال سیوں وجہ ان پر م د تنہا مسلط‬
Support must continue to the Afghan people to help
‫جا ۔‬
them survive tough times. In this regard, billions of
dollars belonging to the Afghan central bank —
being blocked by the US — must be released so that
food, medicine and other essential needs of the
Afghan population can be met. Afghanistan’s people
deserve a chance at rebuilding their country, not
more isolation ‫ عل حد‬imposed on them due to the
short-sighted policies of their rulers.

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Frenzy of hate ‫نفرت ا جنون‬
‫و وا‬ ‫دھ روز ف صل آ اد جڑانوالہ عﻼ م‬
THE paroxysm of violence in Faisalabad’s ‫ جو کہ‬، ‫برادری ل‬ ‫د مہری مس‬ ‫شدد انتہا‬
Jaranwala area on Wednesday chillingly ‫ ل یہ ثا ت کر‬، ‫تمام اقلی عقائد مان وا ہ‬ ‫مل‬
demonstrated‫ مظا ره ک ا‬to the Christian ‫دفاع ہ ۔ فسادات م‬ ‫سام‬ ‫د ا کہ وه جوم غ‬
community, indeed to adherents of all ‫ زائد افراد پر د شت گردی‬600 ‫ان کردار ل‬
minority faiths in the country, that they are ‫الزامات تحت مقدمہ درج ک ا جانا 'ر است رٹ' ا دیر‬
‫ ر است ا‬، ‫ا مظا ره ۔ تمام ا اؤن س‬ ‫اور خون‬
defenceless‫دفاع‬ against the rage of the
‫کہ پتہ نہ تھا جب مقا مساجد عﻼ م ر وا دو‬
mob. That over 600 people were booked on ‫مذ ب الزامات کو اٹھا ا اور‬ ‫ع سا بھائیوں خﻼف ت‬
terrorism charges for their role in the rioting ‫ل آ بڑ ۔ جب کہ فسادیوں توڑ پھوڑ‬ ‫عوام کو ا سا‬
is a belated and anaemic demonstration of ‫ اور ع سائیوں تعلق‬،‫اور انچ گرجا گھروں کو نذر آ ش ک ا‬
the ‘writ of the state’. From all accounts, the ‫ مقا پول س خاموش‬،‫رکھ وا ک گھروں پر حملہ ک ا‬
state was nowhere to be found when local ‫ مشتعل جوم پول س‬،‫تماشا ب ر ۔ متاث ن مطابق‬
mosques picked up on blasphemy ‫ت‬ ‫ جس بہت‬، ‫والوں طرف کو مزاحمت نہ‬
allegations against two Christian brothers ‫ر ا شیوں کو خوف عالم م اپ گھر چھوڑ پر مجبور‬
‫ل ر نجرز‬ ‫ونا پڑا۔ پنجاب حکومت کو شدد پر قابو ا‬
living in the area and proceeded to incite the
3000 ‫ اور عد م مختلف یونٹوں تق ا‬،‫کو ﻼنا پڑا‬
public. While the rioters ransacked‫توڑ پھوڑ‬ ‫پول س اہل ار تعینات ک گ ۔‬
and torched five churches, and attacked
several houses belonging to Christians, the ‫کو ب اپ‬ ‫اس منا واقعہ م ٹارگٹ میون م‬
local police were silent bystanders. According ‫۔ اس ط ح‬ ‫جان ہاتھ دھو ب ٹھ ا واحد ذر عہ نہ‬
to the victims, the rampaging mob met no ‫اقلیتوں تحفظ ل‬ ‫ اس مل‬،‫ساتھ‬ ‫ر واق‬
resistance‫ مزاحمت‬from the cops, forcing ‫ اور درحق قت ارادے پر اعتماد م اضافہ‬،‫ر است قا ل ت‬
many residents to flee their homes in terror. ‫وتا جا ر ا ۔ غور ک ں کہ انتہا دائ ازو عنا‬
‫جنہوں جڑانوالہ م مس حیوں خﻼف عوا جذ ات کو‬
The Punjab government had to call in the
‫ عد‬،‫ل ﻻؤڈ اس کرز پر نفرت انگ ب انیہ پ ش ک ا‬ ‫بھڑ ا‬
Rangers to quell the violence, and some 3,000 ‫م انہوں پول س ساتھ مل کر حاﻻت کو ’پرسکون‘ کر‬
police personnel were later deployed from ‫حفاظت‬ ‫ اور یہ ب دعو ٰی ک ا کہ وه میون‬، ‫م مدد‬
various units. ‫م م وف ہ ۔‬

That no one from the targeted community

lost their life is the only note of comfort in
this shameful episode. With each such
incident, there is an incremental loss of faith
in the ability, and indeed the will, of the state
to protect the minorities of this country.
Consider ‫ غور ک ج‬that the ultra-right
elements that relayed a hate-filled narrative
‫ وضاح‬on loudspeakers to whip up public
sentiment against the Christians in Jaranwala
later accompanied the police to help ‘calm’
the situation, and also claimed they were
engaged in protecting the community.

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This is yet another instance of the state
indulging regressive‫ رجعت سند‬pressure
groups even when they openly intimidate
people. For one, there can be no more
sinister way of demonstrating to the victims
that they exist on the sufferance of the
majority. Secondly, it is also against the law in
Punjab to use a sound system to voice “any
sectarian or other utterances of controversial
‫ متنازعہ‬nature likely to lead to public
disorder”, and yet such incitement to
communal violence continues to occur. The
political leadership has spoken out strongly
against Wednesday’s disturbances‫ خلل‬and
the provincial caretaker government vowed
to ‘restore’ all damaged churches and homes.
Yesterday, the Islamabad police formed a
Minority Protection Unit with 70 personnel to
protect minority‫ اقل ت‬places of worship and
communities. While this is a welcome move,
it is but a band-aid on a very deep-seated
‫ گہری ب ٹ‬malaise.
‫یہ ر است جانب رجعت سند د اؤ وا گرو وں کو‬
‫ا ک اور مثال یہاں تک کہ جب وه لوگوں کو‬ ‫شامل کر‬
‫کھ عام دھم ا ہ ۔ ا ک تو یہ کہ متاث ن سام یہ ظا ر‬
‫و سکتا کہ وه‬ ‫کر ا اس بڑا کو اور بھ انک ط قہ نہ‬
‫ پنجاب م "ک‬،‫ا ت مصائب پر موجود ہ ۔ دوم‬
‫ب فرقہ وارانہ ا متنازعہ نوع ت د گر لمات کو عوا‬
‫ل ساؤنڈ سسٹم ا‬ ‫ان شار ا اعث بن " ل آواز دی‬
‫اوجود فرقہ‬ ‫ اور اس‬، ‫استعمال کرنا ب قانون خﻼف‬
‫واقعات و ر ہ ۔ س ا‬ ‫وارانہ شدد کو بھڑ ا‬
‫ات‬ ‫دھ روز و وا گ ڑ خﻼف سخ‬ ‫ق ادت‬
‫اور ص ا نگراں حکومت تمام ت اه شده گرجا گھروں‬
‫ اسﻼم‬،‫اور گھروں کو ’ حال‘ کر ا عزم ک ا ۔ گزشتہ روز‬
‫آ اد پول س اقلیتوں ع ادت ا وں اور میونٹ‬
‫ اہل اروں پر مشتمل ا ک اقلی تحفظ یونٹ‬70 ‫حفاظت ل‬
‫ ل کن یہ ا ک‬، ‫شک ل د ا۔ ا رچہ یہ ا ک خوش آئند اقدام‬
‫انتہا گہری پ شا پر ب نڈ ا ڈ ۔‬

Frank assessment ‫ف نک شخ ص‬
PEOPLE of conscience the world over have long
criticised ‫ تنق د‬the atrocious crimes the Israeli ‫ا ائ ر است‬ ‫اشعور لوگوں ط ل عر‬ ‫دن ا بھر‬
state all too frequently unleashes on the ‫طرف فلسطی عوام پر ک جا وا ظالمانہ جرائم پر‬
Palestinian people. Yet when a voice from within ‫۔ پھر ب جب ا ائ اس ی لشمنٹ اندر‬ ‫تنق د‬
the Israeli establishment finds the courage to ‫تو فلسطی از صداقت‬ ‫مت ا‬ ‫کو آواز سچ بول‬
speak the truth, the righteousness‫ راس ازی‬of the ‫۔‬ ‫اور ع وں مصائب حد تک خود واضح و جا‬
Palestinian cause — and the extent of the Arabs’ ‫سابق ا ائ ج ل اور جاسوس ام ام لیون مغر کنار‬
suffering — become self-evident. Former Israeli ‫ساتھ ساتھ نازی‬ ‫اقدامات کو سل پرس‬ ‫م اپ مل‬
general and spymaster Amiram Levin has likened ‫ات کر‬ ‫ش یہ دی ۔ مقا ر ڈیو‬ ‫جرائم‬ ‫جرم‬
his country’s actions in the West Bank to ‫ مقبوضہ مغر کنار ا‬، ‫ س ن سابق فو آد‬، ‫و‬
apartheid, as well as the crimes of Nazi Germany. ‫ ج کہ‬، " ‫حوالہ دی و کہا کہ عﻼ م "م مل رنگ برن‬
Speaking to local radio, the senior ex-military man, ‫ اور جن‬، ‫انہوں م د کہا کہ "عمل" ناز وں اد دﻻتا‬
referring to the occupied West Bank, said there ‫جرائم مشابہت رکھتا ۔‬
was “total apartheid” in the area, while adding
that the “processes” were reminiscent‫اد دﻻ واﻻ‬ ‫ ا ائ ب ت ف مغر کنار تک محدود نہ‬،‫ﻼشبہ‬
of the Nazis, and resembled‫ مشابہت‬war crimes. ‫ ل ہ حق قت م فلسط م صہیو ر است ق ام‬،
‫تک سات دہائیوں پر مح ط ۔ مثال طور پر غزه لوگ‬

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Of course, Israeli brutality‫ سفا ت‬is not limited to
the West Bank, and in fact stretches back over
seven decades to the establishment of the Zionist
state in Mandatory Palestine. The people of Gaza,
for example, will tell you that they face the wrath
of Tel Aviv every few years, reducing large parts of
their miserable coastal enclave‫ محصور عﻼقہ‬to
rubble. Moreover, while the Israeli military
machine, as well as racist militant settlers, have
few qualms‫ ش ش‬about murdering Palestinians,
there is a long history behind this violence. For
example, during the Nakba, thousands of
Palestinians were killed and hundreds of
thousands uprooted‫ ا ھاڑ پھین ا‬from their ancestral
land by Zionist gangs. The massacre at the Arab
village of Deir Yassin, and many others like it, is a
textbook case of ethnic cleansing. When such
violence lies at the root of the creation of Israel, is
it any surprise that the two-state solution has been
buried? Simply put, extremists within Israel insist
on denying the Palestinians their humanity. But
hopefully brave assertions such as that of the
former general will help many within Israel realise
the crimes that have been committed in their
name, as well as exposing the myth that Israel is
the Middle East’s sole democracy.
‫غضب‬ ‫ر چند سال عد تل اب ب‬ ‫کہ انہ‬ ‫آپ کو بتائ‬
‫ جس ان دک ساح عﻼ‬، ‫ا سامنا کرنا پڑتا‬
‫ جب‬،‫بڑ ح کو مل م ت د ل کر د ا جاتا ۔ م د برآں‬
‫ ن سل پرست عسک ت سند آ اد‬، ‫کہ ا ائ فو مش‬
‫ار م کچھ جان‬ ‫اروں کو فلسطی یوں کو قتل کر‬
‫ ل کن اس شدد پ چھ ا ک ط ل تار ـ ـخ ۔ مثال‬،
‫طور پر نکبہ دوران صہیو غنڈوں ہاتھوں زاروں‬
‫زم‬ ‫فلسطی مار گ اور ﻻ ھوں کو ان آ ا‬
‫ اور اس‬،‫عرب اؤں م قتل عام‬ ‫دخل کر د ا گ ا۔ دیر اس‬
‫ س تطہ ا در کتاب ۔ جب‬، ‫بہت دو‬ ‫ج‬
‫ تو ک ا یہ‬، ‫اس ط ح ا شدد ا ائ ل تخلیق جڑ م‬
‫کو تعجب ات کہ دو ر اس حل دفن و گ ا ؟‬
‫ ا ائ ل اندر انتہا سند فلسطی یوں کو ان‬، ‫س د الفاظ م‬
‫ا سان ت ان ار پر ا ار کر ہ ۔ ل کن ام د کہ سابق‬
‫ج ل دل انہ دعو ا ائ ل اندر بہت لوگوں کو ان‬
‫جرائم ا ادرا کر م مدد ک ں جو ان نام پر ک گ‬
‫نقاب ک ں کہ‬ ‫ اور ساتھ اس افسا کو ب‬، ‫ہ‬
‫ا ائ ل م ق وس ٰ واحد جمہور ت ۔‬

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