their narrative is never given.....but it is known by those who dig deeper into the matter and have the deceny and moral maturity to listen to their side --instead of towing the over-used rhetoric that is blibber-blabbered in the media time to time
Your comment reminds me of the book "in the line of fire " By Gen Musharraf, he says that in these current times, people don’t have the time and really cant be asked to pick up Quran and its translation and try to understand the meaning and its interpretation, what they really need to form an opinion is to watch the short videos containing the blood chilling scenes of the Muslim terrorists from Al Qaeda and its clone organisations. They will quickly form an opinion based on the ranting and rhetoric of some Islamists rather than what a peaceful Muslim is saying (and that’s boring and doesn’t sell well anyway).
the voice of reason and decency are the first victims when emotions are high and the media ceases this opportunity and fans this sentiment with airing more sensational stories Pakistani state here has failed badly on this front although its fighting for the past ten years and despite many gains against the terrorists and heavy loss losses in terms of human and material it cant has failed to show what it has achieved and lost and its story has been told by the 3rd parties.
I mean, you see its top civilian and military leadership being targeted and assassinated including generals along with their families, their helicopters shot at their conveys being attacked their children being killed, but still same army is blamed for colluding with Taliban? both BLA and TTP openly give interviews and make videos from Afghanistan and NATO and Afghanistan are not told clearly in the same terms to track and stop them the way Pakistan is told from almost every level on their side.
Our international audience has very select memory and I cant blame them, these times have seen some very rapid changes in the geopolitical nature of the world so its hard to keep track on things. Instead of being reactive to what someone else is saying and what someone tomorrow will say, Pakistan state needs to open an effective and dedicated media / information section regarding its WoT and its issues and concerns regarding NATO and Afghanistan’s indifference towards its enemies like BLA and TTP.
Also, while NATO is trying to work on a peaceful solution and seeking dialog with Taliban, its demanding us to go after them and when we do that we are blamed for stalling the peace process. Damned if we do, damned if we don’t. that’s there we need some good articulate speakers who don’t just waste themselves on blaming our past policies because there are countless people whoa re doing that without any proposed solution, but we need people who show what we have done so far and how all these accusations are baseless and ludicrous.
Taliban execute almost one person everyday on suspicion of working for the ISI, its own over 300 agents have lost lives to these same groups even our retired col Imam was executed in front of the camera who was blamed by Taliban for working for the Americans and Pakistan army, now the world sees that but is impassive because there is no one telling from our side that how BBC would blame us from supporting Taliban who are executing our own officers? If such allegations are true then it means that we are so dumb that we are helping our own killers yet we are so conniving double crossers that we are betraying our partners who are supporting our war effort. Which means that Americans are the dumbest of the lot who are continuously being (allegedly ) double crossed by ISI/ PA which in tern is the constant target of Taliban.
The 2nd May attack managed to dig out the biggest antagonist of WoT out of the rat hole but todate the Americans have not come up with any evidence of collusion of Pak Army or the state except some assumptions of possible lower to middle level collusion over 8 years which is also ill-informed, anyone who knows how the military works knows it well that no posting is more than few 2 or 3 years and the commissioned and non-commissioned officers are constantly rotated in places and positions so any such collusion is virtually impossible to sustain or keep secret. Again, there is no one from Pakistan to express this eloquently and clearly to the world and we all have to relay on the 3rd parties that after a while do air one program or report that shows Pakistan positively but that’s not enough
