The difference

The news of an Afghan man shot dead as a group of 50 people, all from Afghanistan, tried to cross into Bulgaria from Turkey reminded me of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s recent statement that “Pakistan is not a brotherly country”.
The Afghan war uprooted over six million Afghans. Iran refused to accept their large-scale influx. Those accepted were kept in a confined and cordoned area. They were sent back soon after the Russian forces withdrew from Afghanistan. Only we embraced over five million Afghan refugees. The irony is that over three million Afghans still live in our country. Even Ashraf Ghani, Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah and many in the Kabul government have lived in Pakistan. And Ashraf Ghani still says Pakistan is not a brotherly country of Afghanistan.
Samina Mallah
Karachi