Our Little Paradise has become a Victim of Global terrorism

This write-up is regarding a place where I had opened my eyes for the first time ever, I mean the place where I have got birth. My place of birth is though not a metropolitan like New York or London, but it is a replica of heaven on earth.
I belong to a small valley in the province of (NWFP) Pakistan. This valley is called “Buner”. Buner was a symbol of love, peace and tranquility on earth. I used the past tens because it is no more a place with charm and peace, it has turned into a war zone now.
What caused our little paradise to become a hell? For this I will have to go about eight years back from now. It was the afternoon of september 12, 2001(The next day right after the 9/11 tragedy), I was sitting with a bunch of my friends in our male guest house and we were having a casual chat about the fallout of 9/11 that the world might face.
One of my friends commented (with a tone of sublime conviction) “that 9/11 is going to bring remarkable changes on the map of the world and it would change the entire course and order of the world”.
On this I chuckled to myself and made a fun of his prophecy, and told him that at least we the people of this small valley should never bother about the changing order of the world, because we are living in a different world which has no strategic importance for anyone and nobody could dare to cross the sky-high hills of our valley to snatch our peace from us.
Today about eight years latter, I think that how much right was my friend, because that monster of terrorism has also crossed the sky-touching hills of buner and has engulfed the entire valley.
In the last few months we have witnessed the harshest brutalities of the entire human history. We have seen scattered parts of our children’s bodies on the scene of suicide attacks, we have seen beheaded bodies of our close ones hang upside down from trees, all the governmental infrastructures like schools, colleges, and hospitals are obliterated. Our villages have become ghost towns, almost all the people have fled to safety, most of them are underprivileged and they can’t afford to hire new houses in the other towns and cites. They have taken refuge in the relief camps of UNHCR under the open sky………
Who has done it to us? Why are they doing it to us? What are their designs?
These questions might be revolving in the head of any reader, reading my discussion.
The answers to all these questions are strongly linked to the prophecy of my friend, which he had given about eight years ago. Victimization of buner and of all other areas is totally linked to the fallout of 9/11.
The attack of USA on Afghanistan in 2001 in the wake of 9/11 and the alliance of Pakistan with USA in the war against terrorism are the sole causes of what we are facing today. Militancy and extremism are no more confined to the borders of Afghanistan it has extended its tentacles to the entire tribal belt of Pakistan and even peaceful places like my own valley are no more any exception.
Let me clear it that most of the invaders that have infiltrated into our areas are from foreign lands, most of them are from Afghanistan, they have also people from Arab countries and a minute percentage is of our local people. They are like a well trained force and have a bulk of sophisticated weapons.
The main agenda behind the escalating militancy in the tribal areas, which is even also gradually extending towards the urban areas like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad is to destabilize Pakistan and by doing so they would extend the spectrum of conflict zone from Afghanistan to Pakistan and thus the woes and concerns of United state regarding terrorism would increase many folds. They want to engage united state in a rather bigger quagmire and they are gradually gaining success in this regard. The recent rounds of drone attacks by the US on the tribal areas is a clear testimony of the fact, that America’s eight years invasion of Afghanistan in the hope to curb and flush out terrorism from this part of the world has gone nowhere and it has even further extended the militancy to other parts of the world.
Time has come that America should revisit its strategies against terrorism and should design a viable exit strategy from Afghanistan, which is the only way to bring peace back to this part of the world and to rescue the rest of the world from the burgeoning menace of extremism and terrorism……..