Apropos "Putting Armed Forces to test" carried by Business Recorder in its Analyses and Comments columns on January 8, one needs to point out a glaring factual mistake in the said item. The analysis has argued: "There is no gain going into history. The idea of strategic depth; creation of Talibs from Madressas; using these Talibs "students" to gain ground first in the West and later on the Eastern front...".
It is a highly misleading statement because nowhere does exist any evidence, however weak, that Pakistan ever employed these Talibs or Taliban on its eastern front. Not even India, a traditional rival of Pakistan, could ever produce any proof of Taliban's presence on either Line of Control (LoC) or the Working Boundary (WB). The necessity of "strategic depth" has been warranted by a slew of factors, including the presence of over 3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Insofar as Pakistan-Afghanistan border in relation to Talibs is concerned, one needs to look deeper into history. The emergence of Afghan Taliban was the result of a protracted internecine civil war in the landlocked country following the defeat of Soviet troops that ultimately led to the signing of the Geneva Accords. History is a subject of in-depth and independent research; it's also a matter of critical investigation. It is the study of the past, with special attention to the written record of the activities of human beings over time.
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