Fears Not Unfounded

Byline: Nazir Naji It is not possible for two factions of people to be stationed on the same mission, with the same aims (and aims with an ideological basis) not to affect each other. Nobody grasped the enormity of the fallout of the plan charted out by the US in the name of religion to meddle in Afghanistan's affairs - the one latched onto by Zia in return for some dollars. Did the US and Zia-ul-Haq know that the proxy war of two superpowers that the US had leapt into - and that for which words such as "Islamic" and "jihad" were being employed - would have such dangerous far-reaching implications?