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When the American strikes on the Taliban began, nobody had thought that the first casualities to be reported wide from the Taliban strongholds would those of Pakistani nationals. The talk of body bags always conjured up images of American soldiers being killed in operations there. There was also high alarm that the start of the arrival of body bags would be a determinative factor in shaping up the American popular opinions in America, which might lead to a turnabout in the actual proceedings of the war. Pakistani nationals succumbing to the bombings and being brought home, all sewn up in bags, was not an easily imaginable scenario.

Yet, it is surprising that the eventuality was not visualized. As the original prompter, promoter of and participator in the terrorist activities, Pak nationals should have been expected to be killed all around. Perhaps the US propaganda that Pakistan was the 'front fighter' in the 'war on terrorism' caught the world in its wrap so well that its role in the whole game got conveniently camouflaged. But then can you ever escape the fruit of your karma? The results of your actions would always haunt your wake, says the Gita. How Pakistan is witnessing those truisms in slow replay!

They saw it in Kargil. They see it in the 'battlefield' they have turned the once peaceful Valley of Kashmir into; they see it daily in the high mountains of Jammu as the security men and the people rise to better them out. They rarely acknowledge it, however. Pakistan refused to accept the body bags from Kargil, and many of the soldiers fighting for their evil causes had to be buried here. They never accept the ones from the State who are invariably buried as unclaimed bodies. To escape its being found out head over heals in the game of terrorism. Pakistan has invariably refused to acknowledge the return parcels of the men it sends out to wage unholy wars as a well meditated plan. Though the world easily sees through this ploy, it has generally helped Pakistan in wriggling out of any diplomatic cornering on the count. At times, it has also 'helped' its fond 'allies' in maintaining a straight face about the involvement of Pakistan in acts of high terrorism.

In line with that plan they even refused to accept the newest body bags, now coming from their beloved Afghanistan initially, but had finally to accept them, probably, under popular pressure.

Or was it because the US was involved? Indeed, the double standards of the American strategy are coming to light quite fast in this war on terrorism. Half a century ago, the WW II had given the lie to the British assertion that she was fighting a 'war for freedom' when it was widely shown that the Empire was the major trampler of right to freedom of peoples all over the globe. Though it did silence the initial plain speak of Eisenhower, especially the one about the Indian subjugation, the UK had finally to accept the unrelenting logic of that charge and the illogic of its practices. American here is faced with a like contradiction. Its 'ally' in the war on terrorism is the first suspect here. It is inconveniently the first one to have its nationals hit there.

Fighting Pakistani terrorists with the Pak aid and assistance from the bases in Pakistan may be a good strategy but it is bad in logic and truth. It is an inconsistency in the American stand that it must correct sooner or later. And, sooner it does the better it would be for the Americans as well as the world, which is geared up for a total war on terrorism, not avenging the American wrongs alone.

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