A #pakistan-Sponsored Hell in Af-Pak region

The Human Rights Watch report focuses attention on atrocities committed against Afghan civilians during the 1990s by various warlords, most of whom operated under the guidance and support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI). The report is titled "Blood Stained Hands" and includes tales of people being rounded up simply on the basis of their ethnicity and locked into cargo containers, which were then destroyed with rocket propelled grenades. In some instances, groups of civilians were thrown into prison cells and sprayed with machine gun fire. Militias indiscriminately rocketed residential neighborhoods. All the while, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar's cannons showered the entire city of Kabul with a hail storm of missiles from the surrounding hilltops. The report reveals that the killing, maiming, raping and beating of civilians was widespread.

Spreading terror and creating chaos are the job for which the Taliban are paid by Pakistan's ISI. In 2008, Atia Abawi of CNN reported that two young men, who were arrested for throwing corrosive acid in the faces of teenage schoolgirls in Kandahar, admitted that a man from the Pakistani Consulate had offered them $2,000 to commit the crime. This same man also offered them $4,000 to kill a school teacher and $10,000 to burn down a school. For the pro-chaos movement to promote the notion that Afghans want to live under such conditions is to callously and chauvinistically suggest that some 30 million Afghans are suicidal.

Both Afghan and Pakistani Pashtun sources claim that keeping Afghanistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of northwest Pakistan weak and unstable are key elements of ISI's "strategic depth" policy for countering a purely theoretical Indian invasion.

The Taliban, Haqqani Network and HIG are all Pakistani paramilitary groups trained, funded and supplied by ISI for the purpose of destabilizing Afghanistan and suppressing the separatist inclinations of Pakistan's own Pashtun population.

If NATO withdraws before the Afghan government can effectively defend Afghanistan against the ongoing attacks by Pakistan's proxies -- including the Taliban, HIG and the Haqqani Network -- the groups which committed the atrocities described in the Amnesty and HRW reports will fall all over each in a bloody competition for power, even worse than the 1990s, and Afghanistan will experience another holocaust.