Munthu yemwe anayesa kuponya bomba pagalimoto ku Times Square anali waku Pakistani.
N’chifukwa chiyani zimenezi n’zosadabwitsa? Yankho: chifukwa mukakhala ndi machesi oyaka ku tanki yamafuta, malamulo a chemistry amafuna kuyaka. Pamene chiphalaphala chotsutsana ndi America chikutuluka mosadodometsedwa kuchokera kumapiri oyaka moto a kanema wawayilesi wapawailesi yakanema waku Pakistan ndi manyuzipepala, psychosis yophatikizana imagwira achinyamata mdzikolo. Cholinga chakupha chikutsatira ndikukhulupilira kuti US ndi yomwe imayambitsa zovuta zonse, ku Pakistan ndi dziko la Islam.
Faisal Shahzad, wokhala ndi magalasi opanga magalasi komanso digiri ya MBA kuchokera ku yunivesite ya Bridgeport, adapeza cholinga chakuphachi. Kukhala zaka zake zachitukuko ku Karachi, akuyimira mnyamata wa ku Pakistani yemwe adakulira mumthunzi wa maphunziro okhudzana ndi chidani a Zia-ul-Haq. Mwana wa Air Vice-Marshal wopuma pantchito, moyo unali wosavuta monganso kukhala nzika yaku US pambuyo pake. Koma panthawi ina maphunziro a poizoni ndi maphunziro a zofalitsa ayenera kuti adayambitsa. Anali ndi mlandu pamene adawona zithunzi za ana akufa a Gaza ndikuwafotokozera ku US thandizo kwa Israeli. Kusakatula pang'ono pa intaneti, kapena mwina mzikiti wakumaloko, zidamutsogolera ku lingaliro la utsogoleri wa Chisilamu. Njira yothetsera mavuto adziko lapansi idzafuna, ndithudi, kuti US iwonongeke ndikuwonongedwa. Chifukwa chake ulendo wa Shahzad kupita ku Waziristan.
Mfundo zomwe zinkaonedwa kuti ndi zonyasa kwambiri zaka khumi zapitazo tsopano ndi zofala. Kafukufuku wachinsinsi wochitidwa ndi kazembe waku Europe wokhala ku Islamabad adapeza kuti 4% yokha ya Pakistanis omwe adafunsidwa amalankhula zabwino zaku America, 96% motsutsana. Ngakhale Pakistan ndi US ndi ogwirizana, m'malingaliro a anthu US yachotsa India ngati mdani woyamba wa Pakistan. Chodabwitsa ndichakuti, malingaliro odana ndi US akukwera molingana ndi chithandizo cholandilidwa. Nenani mawu amodzi abwino okhudza US, ndipo mumangodziwika kuti ndinu wothandizira. Kuchokera pa zomwe anangula otchuka a TV adanena za izi, $ 7.5 biliyoni ya Kerry-Lugar mwina inali ndalama zomwe US ikufuna kubera Pakistan m'malo mopereka kwa izo.
Pakistan si dziko lokhalo padziko lapansi kumene America ndi yosatchuka. Pofuna kudzikonda, chuma ndi chitetezo, dziko la US lachita nkhondo zosaloledwa, kupereka ziphuphu, kuzunza ndi kugonjetsa maboma, kuthandizira olamulira ankhanza ndi maboma ankhondo, ndi kusokoneza kayendetsedwe ka kusintha kopita patsogolo. Koma chodabwitsa kuti US sakukondedwa kwambiri ku Pakistan kuposa mayiko omwe adakumana ndi ziwopsezo zaku America - Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq, ndi Afghanistan. Chifukwa chiyani?
Kumenyedwa ndi drone ndi kufotokozera kofala koma zabodza. Nduna ya Zachilendo Shah Mahmood Qureshi amavomereza momveka bwino kuti kuphulika kwa mabomba ku Times Square ndi kubwezera koma izi sizikugwirizana. Kuukira kwa Drone kwapha ena osalakwa, koma kuwononga zigawenga ku Waziristan ndikuwononga ndalama zochepa kwambiri kuposa zida zankhondo zaku Pakistani kapena ndege. Kumbali inayi, mizinda ya Hanoi ndi Haiphong idaphulitsidwa ndi mabomba a B-52 ndipo nkhalango za Vietnam zidaphwanyidwa ndi Agent Orange. Komabe, Vietnam sinayambe yakhala ndi malingaliro ozama ngati a ku Pakistan.
Kupeza zifukwa zenizeni kumafuna kukumba mozama. Mwa zina, Pakistan ikuwonetsa kukwiyira komanso kudzidetsa kwa kasitomala kwa omwe amalipira. Ubale wa US-Pakistani ukuchitika lero, koma ubale wamakasitomala ndi wakale. Zowonadi, Pakistan idasankha njira iyi chifukwa kuthana ndi India motsutsana ndi Kashmir idafuna kuti pakhale magulu ankhondo ambiri komanso ndalama zazikulu zodzitetezera. Chifukwa chake, m'ma 1960, Pakistan idalowa nawo mapangano ankhondo a SEATO ndi CENTO, ndipo idanyadira kutchedwa "mgwirizano wogwirizana kwambiri ndi America". Gulu lankhondo la Pakistani linakhala bungwe lamphamvu kwambiri, lokhala ndi zida zokwanira komanso lokonzekera bwino mdziko muno. Izi zidayikanso Pakistan pachiwonetsero chakunja.
Kuukira kwa Soviet ku Afghanistan mu 1979, ngakhale kumabweretsa phindu lochepa, kudakulitsa kudalira. Adalipidwa ndi US kuti apange zida za anti-Soviet jihadist, Pakistan tsopano ikulipidwanso kuti ithane ndi vuto lankhondoyo. Pakistan ndiye adalowa mu nkhondo ya George W. Bush yolimbana ndi zigawenga kuti apititse patsogolo chitetezo cha America - mfundo yomwe imapweteketsanso kudzidalira. Ndi nkhani ina yomwe Pakistan imamenya nkhondo yomweyi kuti ipulumuke, ndipo iyenera kuyitanitsa gulu lake lankhondo kuti liteteze anthu kukhosi, kuwadula manja, komanso kukwapula atsikana.
Kupereka ndalama ndizofunikanso ku Pakistan anti-Americanism. Ndi m’chibadwa cha anthu kuimba mlandu ena kaamba ka zolephera zako. Pakistan yakhala ikukhazikika pakati pa kukhala dziko lolephera ndi dziko lolephera. Olemera salipira msonkho? Magetsi ochepa? Madzi akumwa okhala ndi zimbudzi?
Kashmir sanathe? Ingodzudzulani izi kwa Achimereka. Chodabwitsa ichi chiliponso kwina. Mwachitsanzo, wina posachedwapa adawona chodabwitsa cha Hamid Karzai akuwopseza kulowa nawo a Taliban ndikukalipira anthu aku America chifukwa (mwina molondola) adanena kuti adachita chinyengo pamasankho.
Zachisoni ku Pakistan, anti-Americanism imasewera m'manja mwa zigawenga zachisilamu. Amalimbikitsa mwamphamvu lingaliro la nkhondo ya Chisilamu ndi Kumadzulo pomwe, kwenikweni, amamenya nkhondo kuti akhazikitsenso anthu. Adzapitilizabe kumenya nkhondoyi ngakhale America ikadakhala nthunzi mozizwitsa mumlengalenga. Opangidwa ndi umphawi, chikhalidwe chankhondo, komanso kusintha kwamphamvu kwa ntchito zanzeru zaku Pakistan, akufuna kusintha kwamtundu wonse. Izi zikutanthauza kuchotsa nyimbo, luso, zosangalatsa, ndi mawonetseredwe onse amakono. Zolinga zakumbali zikuphatikizapo kuthamangitsa Akhristu ochepa omwe atsala, Asikh, ndi Ahindu.
Panthaŵi imene dziko likufunika kumveketsa bwino maganizo kuti lithe kulimbana ndi anthu ochita zinthu monyanyira, mafotokozedwe osavuta a bipolar ndi osakwanira. Funso lachikhalidwe "Kodi America ndi yabwino kapena yoyipa?" ndi chabe. Palibe kukayikira kuti US yachita zankhanza monga ku Iraq, kukulitsa vuto la Palestine, ndikusunga gulu lankhondo lalikulu kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi. Tikudziwanso kuti ipanga mgwirizano ndi a Taliban ngati akuwoneka kuti ali ndi zofuna za America, ndipo adzachita izi ngakhale zitatanthauza kusiya anthu aku Afghanistan kuti azikonda magazi.
Komabe, kungakhale kulakwa kunyozetsa chisonkhezero chothandiza anthu ku United States panthaŵi yamavuto. Kodi tingoyimitsa thandizo lalikulu la US ku Pakistan panthawi ya chivomezi chowopsa cha 2005? Kapena kumayiko omwe anakhudzidwa ndi tsunami mu 2004 komanso ku Haiti mu 2010? Zowonadi, US siilinso yodzikonda kapena yodzikonda kuposa dziko lina lililonse padziko lapansi.
Ndipo imachita bwino nzika zake zachisilamu kuposa momwe timachitira ndi omwe si Asilamu ku Pakistan.
M'malo molengeza ziweruzo zamakhalidwe abwino pa chilichonse ndi chilichonse, ife a Pakistani tifunika kutsimikiziranso zomwe zili zofunikadi kwa anthu athu: mtendere, chilungamo chachuma, utsogoleri wabwino, utsogoleri wa malamulo, kuyankha kwa olamulira, ufulu wa amayi, ndi kulingalira bwino pazochitika za anthu. Washington iyenera kutsutsidwa mwamphamvu, koma pokhapokha ikufuna kukokera Pakistan kutali ndi zolinga izi. Zotsutsana kwambiri ndi America zidzangotulutsa a Faisal Shahzads ambiri.
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Wolembayo amaphunzitsa ku Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.