ONE is at a loss to express reaction over the assertions of German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she vomited venom against Pakistan, in an attempt to appease her American masters and also her Indian guest, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Her 'vision that Pakistan is using terrorism to solve political issues is an ample proof that she lacks understanding of the South Asian region and the prevailing conflicts. Madam Chancellor also set aside all diplomatic norms while speaking on a very sensitive issue and what she said was not all in her foreign office brief. Her heart bleeds for a few dozen victims of Mumbai attacks but she closes her eyes to the state-sponsored genocide of the innocent Kashmiri people, continuing for the past over five decades. She lacks historical perspective as well and conveniently forgot the Indian atrocities against Tamils. She perhaps has no clue to the stories of The Golden Temple carnage and similar treatment of activists of over a dozen ongoing separatist movements. It is not her fault. Having lived under the suppression of the allied forces for so long, she perhaps has learnt to be short-sighted. Ms Merkel must have learnt some diplomatic skills and political acumen from her predecessors like Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schroeder for dealing with global issues. Her predecessors never indulged in issuing statements without fully realising the ground realities or calculating their likely implications. The element of terror that she referred to in her statement is a gift that the American and its European allies left behind after the dismemberment of the former Soviet Union. There was a time when Afghan leaders were received in Washington and other European capitals as heroes because they fought a battle which served the Wests interests more than their own. After achieving their targets, the West conveniently turned its back on Afghanistan as well on Pakistan, leaving the Islamic Republic in the lurch to sustain some four million uninvited guests, about half of which are still there. Needless to point out that Pakistan became a victim of terrorism after the influx of the Afghan refugees. Therefore, what we see in and around Afghanistan is the outcome of the Wests betrayal, which the Europe and the United States are quite adept at. The West and America used Pakistan and Afghan leaders and once their objectives were achieved, they took no time to run away. Despite the fact that Pakistan has umpteen times explained that those involved in terrorist activities are non-state actors, they still accuse us of sheltering terrorists. When Germany organised Intra-Afghan Dialogue in Bonn, Berlins understanding of Pakistani position was different. But today, when America is trying to build up India with its nefarious designs to counter fast-growing China on the world stage, you have changed your position. Do you remember, Ms Merkel, that during the 1968-1977 period, Germany lived under absolute fear. Three terrorist groups - the Red Army Faction (RAF), Movement 2 June, and the Revolutionary Cells (RZ) - gathered about a hundred Germans as their members. The Baader-Meinhof Gang, who called themselves the Red Army Faction, and two other terrorist groups went killing dozens of people. In 1968, the prominent German journalist Ulrike Meinhof joined the former juvenile delinquent Andreas Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin in launching the most terrifying era in German post-war history. The student protests of 1968 turned into riots and the young terrorists in their desperate attempt to start the world revolution took to terrorism: bank robbings turned to kidnappings and murders. Most of the leaders of the most famous West German terrorist group, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, were captured in mid-1972. Their followers continued kidnapping and killing people over the next five years in an effort to secure their leaders release from prison, but it was all in vain. The German government had no intention of releasing them. But does this mean that Germany could be termed as a state sponsoring terrorism? No one grudges your new-found love with India, Ms Merkel. But your stature, if left any, demands that you should be careful in picking up your words. Pakistan is on a weaker wicket and one wonders how top Pakistani leadership, or the Foreign Office, is going to react. But for sure your assertions have not gone well with the average citizen of Pakistan at the grassroots level. Hitler days are gone and so should Hitler-like attitude Madam Chancellor.