NATO and ISAAF should do more to stop poppy cultivation: Pak PM

Islamabad, Pakistan: The Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gallani said the NATO and ISAAF forces should prevent the Afghans from cultivation of Poppy in different parts of Afghanistan.

Eventually, the insurgent groups in Afghanistan get the funds through the poppy money and last year there was a record production of Poppy in Afghanistan, according to international reports.

The Pak PM’s message came as a response to the U.S and the West, who always try to dictate the Pakistani administration to do more against the Taliban insurgents in the tribal areas and Swat valley of North Western Pakistan.

Although when we look at the U.S led war on terror that has entered in its 8^th year in the hunt of Bin Ladan, Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan, their position is very miserable.

They have not able to capture Bin Ladan who is still at large, nor there seems any progress in war on terror even though more and more troops are being poured into Afghanistan but that resulted in shape of a record high poppy production and the increasing resistance from the Taliban insurgents.

Moreover, the war that was dragged inside Pakistan by the former military dictator Pervaiz Musharraf has entered a new phase, from the tribal belt to settled areas of Swat valley and Buner district where the Pakistani security forces are battling with the Taliban insurgents for that last 3 days, however, Pakistan army has taken control of most of the area in Buner and the Taliban are withdrawing now, according to ISPR briefing.

The Director General, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Athar Abbas said the Buner operation may take a week to complete.

In the war on terror, Pakistan has suffered greater damage despite having the poor economy and increasing challenges of extremism inside the country and the arms and funds from Afghanistan into Pakistan to the Taliban insurgents, moreover the U.S drone attacks across the border on the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Pakistan has rendered more sacrifices than any other country in the U.S led coalition whether military or civilian casualties that were caused by the Taliban insurgents, and that day is not very far when the Pakistanis will say it is enough because despite having the military might and sophisticated weapons the U.S and NATO forces could not control the poppy cultivation and the drug money that is compounding the Pakistan with more challenges, they do not have the right to say, DO MORE.