By Afshain Afzal

After taking office in January 2025, Trump ordered a 90-day foreign aid freeze, halting all kinds of aid, including humanitarian assistance. However, without waiting for expiry of 90 days, but soon President Donald Trump rewarded both Pakistan and India for their unconditional loyalties. The conditions were quite clear that the military aid would not be used against India. In February this year, President Trump announced that Pakistan receives funding for maintaining its F-16 fighter jet fleet while India gets an offer for the sale of the F-35 stealth aircraft. Islamabad has confirmed that US has approved $397 million for Pakistan to sustain its F-16 fighter jets for counter-terrorism efforts.

If we recall, President Donald Trump halted all defense and security aid to Pakistan in January 2018, saying, “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit…They give safe havens to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan…No more!” Later, President Joseph Biden administration approved sale of F-16 fighter jet fleet sustainment and related equipment to Pakistan worth 450 million over a deal while US Defense Security Cooperation Agency revealed in a statement, “… the sustainment program would assist Pakistan in its campaign against terrorism with a reminder that it will not affect the status quo in the region.”

It is on record that the US has repeatedly announced that Washington will monitor the use of these cutting-edge fighter jets to ensure they are used only for counterterrorism (CT) and counterinsurgency (COIN) operations and not deployed against India Now it should be quite clear to Pakistanis that every dollar of American aid or Western sources coming to Pakistan cannot be used against enemies of Pakistan and can only be used against own people in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtun Khawa, their supporters and orthodox Muslims.

India claims that she officially communicated Pakistan well before time about the targets to be attacked on 7 May 2025, in which five Holy Mosques were destroyed that also led to martyrdom of 41 Muslim men, women and children and injuring more than 57 others. It is strange that Islamabad claimed soon after the Indian attacks that Indian side has hoisted while flag of peace on its posts. The shameless act is to be condemned in the strongest words. Interestingly, the name of the Pakistani operation has been adopted from a Holy Verse decorated on one of the Mosque Indian bombed and destroyed, which bears the same verse of Surrat As Saf, “There is no doubt that Allah loves those who fights in his path, lined up as solid rock.”

It surprised many that on the dictation of US President Donald Trump how can India and Pakistan immediately agree for a ceasefire without any condition. On 10 May 2025, President Trump Tweeted "After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. Congratulations to both countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” The question arises was it a fixed match?

President Trump is a happy man after achieving the target of killing Muslims inside Pakistan alleged to be terrorists, which he was made to believe that they were terrorists who killed American citizens. Hundreds of such people were either apprehended and handed over to the Americans or killed in the recent Indian attack but the game has gone beyond this as now the US, India, Iran and Pakistan are on the same grid. Ironically, Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Syed Abbas Araghchi was in Pakistan on 5 May 2025, having meetings with senior civil and military leadership regarding operations against Sunni Baloch of Iranian and Pakistani sides. Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces is in contact with General Syed Asim Munir for joint operations. On the day of Indian attacks on Pakistan on 7 May 2025, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in India to celebrate 75^th Anniversary of Indo – Iran friendship and ink strategic and counterterrorism agreements.

Today, we saw multiple target killings of orthodox Muslims everywhere in Pakistan, India and elsewhere but each nation though united alleging others to be the real killers. How long we will allow this to happen? Are these not human right violations and crime against humanity? These people are liars worse than beast who jubilate after carrying out ethnic cleaning. After agencies sponsored and planned on Army Public school, Peshawar thousands of innocent men, women and children were ruthlessly killed in the name of war against terrorism and other operations and few days back on 21 May 2025, a similar pattern school bus in Khuzdar, Balochistan was attacked in which 11 innocent people including students of Army Public School Khuzdar were killed. A new operation by the quad, “Fitna al Hindustan” has been launched to carryout mass slaughter of Baloch after dubbing them disloyal, terrorists and anti-Islam, “Khawaraj”. It is high time that the UNO, the human right organizations and civilized nations of the world must intervene to prevent this ethnic cleansing and assure peace.