Afghan Refugees Cheering After the Death of Osama

Afghan refugees had cheering after the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Mr Mirza khan 45 year old Afghan refugee live in Peshawar for past 20 years , he said that “We are jubilant over the news that … Osama Bin Laden has been killed, because he was solely responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan,”

“We had a very good house and business in Kabul,” he said, cursing al-Qaeda and Taliban for the woes of millions of Afghans.

There are 5 million or afghan refugees in Pakistan during there homeland during of war. Near about three million on them have since returned, but 2 million remain in Pakistan for fear of insecurity back home

Bin Laden, once revered in the Islamic world, had lost his popularity as his followers attacked schools, mosques and funerals, killing thousands of innocent people, including women and children. Those who hated him were numerous and eager to speak out.

“This morning I woke up to very sudden news about the killing of Osama. We never expected that this man (Osama) would ever die,” said Zalmay Janan, a grade-9 student at Mirwais Public School for Afghans on Nasir Bagh Road Peshawar. He appeared hopeful that Osama’s death would speed the end of the insurgency in war-battered Afghanistan.

“I hate Osama because he created a force that opposed female education. He was not the leader of the Muslims but he led terrorists instead,” said Gul Makai, who teaches English at Aryana School in Tehkal locality in Peshawar. She handed out sweets to students to celebrate this morning, she said. She knows at least 200 children who live in Pakistan solely so they can study, she said.

Irfan Javid, 20, said he was living alone in Peshawar to complete his education. “My parents live in Kunar Province of Afghanistan, where the Taliban have vast influence and hence the schools cannot function properly,” he said. “My parents come every month to meet with me and give me money for my expenses here.”

In the Board Market in Peshawar, which is called “mini-Kabul,” shopkeepers exchanged pleasantries and congratulated each other on what they called a great success.

“We are providing child labour to the automobile workshops, hotels and other small outlets in Pakistan,” rickshaw driver Noor Wali said. “Thousands of Afghan children have been working for a paltry amount under Pakistanis. It is all because of a man called Bin Laden.” A former resident of Paktika Province, he said he fled to Pakistan after a suicide attack killed his parents three years ago.

“Had Bin Laden not arrived in Kabul, my parents would have been alive and I would have been in college now,” Wali, 21, said.

Bin Laden’s death will do much to establish peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan, prominent Afghan doctor Alif Gul told Central Asia Online. “The different jihadist groups for which Osama was the cement will fall apart like a house of cards now,” he predicted.

By and large, Osama was the architect of terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said. Almighty Allah has answered the prayers of millions of peace-loving Muslims in the form of Bin Laden’s death, he said.