We take it as a badge of honor to be honest. When we engage with analysts on social media, it’s to understand their point of view and share ours. That is where intelligence becomes intelligent. But when analysts decide that their opinion is the only possible opinion and become hostile, well, we just won’t accept that.

It will be on rare occasions that you’ll find me addressing the CommandEleven audience about something related to CommandEleven. We didn’t build this platform, bring the best analysts together and begin counter the negative image being wrongly portrayed about Pakistan to sit back and accept someone’s blind judgement of our work and organization.

Let’s us be crystal clear – CommandEleven has never supported any jihadi organization and never will.

You will not find, on any page of our website, support for or acceptance of any jihadi teachings or ideology. Conversely, I, along with some of our team members, have been directly involved in countering the menace of violent extremism in Pakistan.

We had to provide that disclaimer due to an accusation made by the analyst whose opinion we questioned.

CommandEleven is a platform that is singularly pro-Pakistan. Our analysis and commentaries reflect what we understand to be the best options to resolve national security, counter terrorism and counter insurgency challenges within our borders and with neighboring nations. While many people may not understand, or agree with our positions, they are all supported with facts and an experience that comes from living 15 years in a war zone.

It is specifically for this reason that we will not accept faulty analysis, disinformation or questionable factual representations. Pakistan, as the frontline state in the global War on Terror, has suffered billions in financial losses, tens of thousands of innocent lives martyred and continues to fight the scourge of terrorism from neighboring countries, all while being blamed as the aggressor. The blame game must end for there to be a solution to the situation.

In an interview with DW, Paulo Casaca, founder of the South Asia Democratic Forum and a former Member of European Parliament from Portugal, shared his thoughts about the “regional solution” for Afghanistan, while bashing Pakistan as the aggressor. Here is his article in the Indian Express calling “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a fully militarized project.”

A quick look at his organization, and heavily pro-India influence, it is easy to understand how someone could make the illogical statements that he asserted in his interview. His organization has numerous articles and “policy briefings” on issues that India has raised, but absolute silence on Kashmir’s human rights abuses and cross-border terrorism from India and Afghanistan into Pakistan. We’d like to believe that his internet in Brussels must have a filter to keep these stories from appearing, but we all know that it’s Indian funding that runs his organization – what else does an organization in Brussels have to do with South Asian democracy?

His view is that “the US must keep an eye on a hostile China-Pakistan-Russia alliance in Afghanistan.”

Let’s be clear. This is the nightmare scenario for both the United States and India.

China, Pakistan’s long-term ally, Russia, India’s ally soured by closer US-India ties, and Pakistan, hated by both Afghanistan and India, aligning together to bring peace to Afghanistan and the region.

Now, here is the shift that no one wants to understand. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and massive investment into Pakistan which they want secured. Yes, there is a new Cold War starting between China and India, but that is geopolitics.

Russia has apparently offered to mediate between India and Pakistan, even though the Indian media and state institutions refute the claim with no named Russian diplomatic source. We will pretend that we didn’t notice that Simla Agreement is misspelled in every “article” refuting the claim. Copy and paste, Indian media, but source and spellcheck.

Russia, however, has tapped Pakistan to assist in keeping the flow of terrorists from Afghanistan into Russia. It has been suggested in the media that there is an ISIS training base in Afghanistan dedicated to training for an attack on Russia.

China has stepped forward to bring resolutions between Pakistan and Afghanistan. China is making heavy investments into Pakistan, which must be secured. Most of those investments are in troubled province of Baluchistan, where cross-border terrorism and support of insurgencies has made the province unstable. China’s interest is with the geopolitical strategy and long-term support of Pakistan in tough times.

The United States and India, after 15 years of being involved, some would say pulling the strings, on ground in Afghanistan’s government and security, there is nothing to show in results. We would dare to say that with ISIS-Khorasan taking a firm hold in Afghanistan, things are actually significantly worse and degrading from there.