A stupidest blog that i have seen in a while at Dawn, but i think i need to answer her before she hurt herself:
The answers to these lead in all directions .. less within the nation & more within the establishment.
20 questions we should be asking after the Peshawar massacre - Blogs - DAWN.COM
1) The people who did this. Where do they get their money from? Where do they get their weapons?
2) Who provides them refuge? Why do they provide them refuge?
Welcome to Afghanistan and FATA.
After the Soviets had left, there was enough weapons and ammo to last for another 100 years, say thanks to CIA, Saudi Arabia et al and funds from almost half of the Capitalist world.
As for the money, well, these groups has turned into business entities. i pay them and ask them to blow something inside Afg, they would do it. You pay them and ask them blow something inside Pakistan, they would do it.
No need to think too hard for who these 'i' and 'you' are.
3) Where do they receive the indoctrination that makes them believe that killing children is justified?
USSR vacated Afg in the late 80s. It has been almost 34 years since then. Thanks to the Yanks for leaving the Afghan Mujahideen abruptly and thus creating a vacuum. With no schools, education, no money and no where to go (even their own countries would not let then back) they stayed back in the Wild Wild Afghanistan. Those who went in from Pakistan/FATA also met a similar fate. Hence, a kid who was born during these 34 years amidst chaos, hunger, violence and with no education, it doesnt take much time to indoctrinate him into killing anything including children.
Which institutions are involved in this indoctrination?
None. Mere training camps. You, Ma'am are totally ignorant, arent you?
Why are these people chosen in particular?
Because they are dumb. And then because they have been neglected.
4) If our intelligence is capable of intercepting calls, receiving messages from the Taliban (claiming responsibility), and receiving photos of the men who did this, why don't we question how these communications are possible without providing a lead to finding these people?
They dont call up the int agencies to own up an attack, they do it to media houses and journalists with whom they have contacts.
Also, it is a function of commonsense that without sponsoring from a State, these guys cannot have access to tech that can make them invisible. If tracking has been so easy, then it would not only have been the NSA to eavesdrop Governments - everyone would have been doing it.
Having said that, int agencies are always tracking them. Thanks to are stupid policies that we still cant make sure that no one have a SIM which unregistered.
5) Why have we not demanded more transparency from our agencies, given the spectacular intelligence failure that this turned out to be?
That's a stupid question. After 9/11 or 26/11, Americans and Indians didnt ask their agencies to reveal how they work.
6) If bombing the Taliban has not resulted in fewer attacks, why do we keep calling for more bombing?
Welcome to 2014.
After Zarb-e-Azb, there have been an acute decline in terrorists attacks. You have been an editor at Dawn, i wonder which kind of news editing you been doing if you didnt observe it. Just tu put things in perspective:
Explanation:
A particular terror attack consumes a certain quantity of explosive. Let's say; 15-20 KG per suicide attack, 50-200 KG per VBIED. So, the amount of explosive which was recovered during Zarb-e-Azb, if translated into 5 IED/Suicide/VBIED attacks per day, it would have taken 15 years non-stop to consume that explosive.
Now, imagine this: Attack on Wagha Border was 'one' attack, so was the Peshwar Attack. Now imagine 5 of them taking place DAILY!
So, please use that brain in addition to your pen.
7) Why have we not asked the military to allow media access to Waziristan? Why do we trust everything we are told about Zarb-e-Azb?
You dont.
Just let the results speak for it.
BTW, media have been to Waziristan, those who had the courage. Others, like Umar Cheema like to report from Bannu.
8) Most of the men who are the perpetrators of these massacres believe they are going to heaven when they die. Will the death penalty instill any fear in them at all? If they are willing to kill themselves, does being killed by others seem a credible deterrent?
i dont know which kind of reporting have you been doing if you didnt know how Dr Usman and Arshad (those hanged yesterday) wept and cried for mercy before getting hanged. Also, one of them died today of a hear attack and he was told that he is going to be hanged.
9) Is there a link between the killings of Ahmedis, Hazaras, Christians, Shias, shrine-attendees and the massacre that took place? Is there a common ideology at hand here?
Yes and no.
TTP is an umbrella orgnisation which welcomes criminals of all sorts including and not restricted to target killers and those who kill in the name of sectarianism.
10) Is there a reason that we condemn some of these attacks and not others? Is that why the blame lies on us?
Ask those who dont. Ask Mulana Abdul Aziz aka Molve Burqa and Munawar Hussain. Ask the government how can Molvi Burqa be CDA's employee while having such beliefs. Ask those Pakistanis, those media houses including the one you serve in why they yapping against Lal Masjid operation back then, now that it is openly known to everyone what the same cleric (Molvi Burqa) has said about Peshawar Attack. Musharraf was right, you were wrong and now you again question him?
11) Is there a link between the rise of the TTP and the impunity with which groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi operate?
LeJ is a banned organization. They are kept on observation and will be stopped if they something like TTP. Until then there isnt much that can be done. Yes, the 'impunity' with which L-e-J exists in Pakistan does give rise to TTP but in a sense that TTP and other criminals know that they wont be harmed even if they are caught!
For this you have to first blame yourself, and also the government. It took us to roll out an anti-terrorism law! Something which the US did in days after 9/11 and India did it in weeks after 26/11.
Even now the govt has formed a facking committee to find an answer to Peshawar Attack. Govts ACT, as did the US after 9/11 and as did India after 26/11, not 'begin' to think. So, if that's the rate at which we are going to react, then my dear, yes there is a link between TTP's rise and LeJ's impunity.
12) Why is it that so many of those arrested in terrorist attacks are released soon after?
Ask the judiciary.
Ask Zardari who placed a moratorium of death penalty.
Ask the politicians why did it take them 4 years to come up with an anti-terrorism law.
We have been fighting internal security for more than a decade now, but the first ever so called National Internal Security Policy (NISP) came out just last year!!
Note: Military has been asking for these laws since 2001.
13) Would having stronger witness programmes, more efficient courts and a corruption-free police system help prevent these men from getting out of jail within days?
You are a genius!
Why didnt i think of this?!
14) Should we start thinking about how, if we were not taught to hate Hindus, Shias, and anyone who is not our brand of religion, this attack may not have been a chilling, logical conclusion to a string of such attacks. How can we change the way our schools teach?
Not every Pakistani hate Hindus. Or let me put it this way, not more than what Hindus think about Pakistanis. If we have JuD they have RSS and Bajrang Dal and others like PN Hoon and Col Prohit, but yes i agree, we need to change we are brought up, which has nothing to do with schooling, but with grooming done at homes.
15) What are we really trying to achieve when we say these attacks were not carried out by Pakistanis?
It was just a statement by stupid Politicians for the consumption of a common man having no idea of what has been happening. Even today there was news in an Urdu newspaper that Peshawar attackers were not Muslims, so i had already tweeted that who fives a fcuk it werent? We will kill them either way!
16) What are we really trying not to think when we say these attacks were not carried out by Muslims?
Kyn? Bees sawal poray nh horhay thay kya?
17) Is there nothing to be considered between bombing and negotiations?
Building and spreading a counter narrative to the narrative of terrorist is one such thing. Though it is the job of politicians but the military has been on it since long.
18) Would bringing schools, water, electricity, roads, and basic respect to the tribal areas be an effective weapon against these terrorists?
It's not rocket science to understand this. Yes, it would. Hence, initiatives like these have helped main streamed parts of FATA:
Pak army's TDP Support & Management Operations
Application of Pak Army's Soft Prong in FATA / Malakand and its Impact
Again, this was govt's job, but the Army did it. Just to get the thing clear, the following slide is worth mentioning here:
19) Would the military changing its policy regarding 'strategic assets' make these terrorists lose their awful potency?
If it is any solace, it was not the 'strategic assets' that had carried out the Peshawar Attack. Pakistan had supported Afghan Taliban so did the US. Fast forward to 2000, reportedly on Haqqani group was being 'supported', but even that changed with Zarb-e-Azb when everyone was targeted. Had the attack been carried out by Haqqanis or as by JuD as some claim that we also support it, then this question would have merit. But it was the TTP, a sworn enemy of Pakistan, its people, its way of life and its military that carried the attack. Having said that, terrorist, your or mine, all have to be eliminated to end this menace.
20) Is it possible to critique our military and government's policies regarding the Taliban, even while feeling immense pain for their dead children?
Why the butt hurt?
You already have criticized the military, especially the military with not much recourse to the govt.
