By Afshain Afzal
World chessboard is witnessing Artificial Intelligence generated show fight in Middle East between US and allies on one side and the Muslims and other Asian countries on the other. Presently main target is Iran but other countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are also being terrorized by the US. Muslims states have acted wisely by not jumping into the unprovoked US war on Iran as the actual plan is more focused on Arab countries rather than Iran,  otherwise  both the US and Iran had attacked all Arab important installations. The so called Operation Epic Fury aims to deprive Arab and African states from their share of oil and gas export to destabilize Muslims economically, politically and militarily to place a new secular Iran as hub of power politics and gateway business and trade. Some Muslim countries acted as Munafiqeen but to achieve greater unity these countries need to be ignored, as their general public is not party to their leadership.
Washington's one of strategic policy is TTT (Tariff, Terrorize and Trade), which is a win-win situation for corrupt leadership and businesspersons throughout the world; India and Pakistan, Bangladesh are no exceptions that are bent upon comprising their national securities. The TTT has specifically, focused on US' monopoly in energy, oil and gas exports to minimize Arab and African oil and gas monopoly in Asia. The US attack on oil and gas refineries of Gulf States is a way forward in the same direction. This year, less than a month after India agreed to stop buying Russian oil in exchange for a US trade deal, Washington on 5 March has extended a one month renewable wavier to buy Russian crude oil and petroleum products. This is a win-win position for both Russia and India; here as the US’ loyalty towards Ukraine can be judged as sanctions were imposed on Russia. Bangladesh has also agreed to import LNG, LPG, and refined fuels worth about US$1.2 billion annually from the US; the supply of gas (LNG) up to 5 million tons per year. Sri Lanka too is also all set to import two million metric tons of American crude oil annually from the US.
In April 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to impose 29% tariffs on imports from Pakistan. After negotiation and agreeing to import oil from US to reduce reliance on Middle Eastern Arab suppliers, US agreed to charge a 19% tariff on imports from Pakistan. No doubt, it is violation of Article 39 of the Constitution of Pakistan. Pakistan started importing crude oil from US and refined oil and gas from Iran despite sanctions. Since October 2025 till to-date Pakistan has imported 4 billion barrels crude oil from US minimizing dependence on Gulf States. Cnergyico, privately owned refineries signed an agreement with US in this regard to import 1 million barrels per month. Pakistani government has announced her plan to import oil through the Red Sea due to the planned closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
In fact, US’ and Iranian attacks on Arab states’ refineries and closure of Strait of Hormuz are aimed to replace Arab monopoly and replace them with US and Iran, dragging Arab economies to the brink of bankruptcy. One wonders if Muslim countries, their allies and neutral nations realize that by importing American oil and petroleum products they are actually aiding US and allies to use these earnings to carryout genocide and other war crimes of Muslims and other marginalized nations. It is high time to impose trade sanctions against US and allies so that they stop terrorizing other nations and adopt civilized path as given in UNO Charter, International Law and their Divine Books. UNO, other organizations and peace loving people of world must pressurize to vacate military bases in other regions to secure future of our future generations.