Daily Times July 31, 2021 The last few decades have seen politicians in our part of the world pin the blame for the security turmoil on the flames emanating from the Afghan border. We’ve been going around in circles for far too long now. Thankfully, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has finally sensed the need to raise the clarion call. Sindh is being said to cross all i’s and dot all t’s for a policy to deal with “the situation developing in Afghanistan.” Alerting the provincial law enforcement agencies, CM Murad Ali Shah also seems determined to crush the recently seen spillover of the conflict. Now, strengthening your own house is all well and good. It was only this month that several troops from the Afghan National Army presented their check-posts (near the Pakistani border) on a silver platter to the attacking Taliban. Going by the blood-stained pages of our past, the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan has always managed to wreak havoc upon our homeland. Clearly, no one in the power circles wants the hard-earned success of 2014’s Zarb-e-Azb to go down the drain. Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeatedly stated not wanting to be involved in foreign war anymore. No sane person would. With over 64,000 fatalities, haven’t we paid enough for being dragged into the American War on Terror?