What was typical in my post? And what homework our army has done so far? We are into this war for 9 freaking years now, and what we have achieved so far? If our mighty army is not able to root out a few thousand cockroaches in 9 years then what should I call it? And PTI don't want to halt military operations for peace talks, go through IK's recent statements to update yourself sir. Yes IK wants ceasefire but on both sides so don't pretend like we are only pushing army, IK just want a fair shot at peace talks and see if something can come out of it.
I don't like criticizing Pak Army and I never did that before. But army is not some holy cow. We are into this war since 9 years now and after 9 years, our army isn't even able to protect its own key officers. TTP is more powerful and is present in more areas as compared to where it was 9 years ago. This war has brought nothing to us except destruction and we just want to continue with this war. We have fought for 9 years and we are ready to fight for 9 more years but we are not ready to pause for a few days and let some politicians try and push TTP to peace talks.
This is a typical response from a PTI supporter.
Insurgencies take decades to get rid of, don't be naive enough to believe that this can be done within a few years.
Imran has been calling for the immediate pullout of all military personal from the tribal areas, that was his election promise. He's only been recently changing his tone because he's in charge of KPK now and realizing that his previous views were naive.
TTP is actually quite weak now. They may be more spread out, but being more spread out doesn't mean anything in the long term, if they're losing support and on the run. They've lost a lot of support within the last few years, so your entire argument is baseless.
War in general brings nothing but destruction, but when a war starts, you must see it to it's conclusion. You cannot one day decide that enough is enough, the world doesn't work like that.
We have given the TTP plenty of times to come to the table, the government AND the military have said that they would agree to a ceasefire, but guess who either keeps refusing, or completely breaks their promise? The TTP.
AGAIN, the ball is in the insurgency's court, not the government's and certainly not the military's.