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Secur & others hope you people will bear me & understand that when I and some other like @
Pak-one oppose 'full fledged military operation' in North Waziristan it is not because of Taliban's love, but I sincerely think it’s not in Pakistan Interest.
I have reasons to believe this.(I will try to remain concise as much possible )
1- Any militarization first target the social fabric of the society, be it insurgency or counter insurgency operations, social structure of the tribal area changed or should i say distorted due to Afghan War which initiated in 1979 with the invasion of Soviet Union, and our counter strategy to that invasion.
Without going into the detail of social effect of militarization of the tribal area, I will only hint about the status of 'Maliks and Tribal Elders' which effected due to the involvement of many of the foreign elements having backing of state, that thing undermine the power of an institution which were effective in many way including the maintenance of Law & Order.
If you people had not observed than let me point out that no Tribal Elder or Malik ever participated in activities of TTP or Taliban supportive movement before TTP, thought in early days it was hyped as Pukhtoon resistant movement against USA. In fact TTP targeted some Maliks & Tribal Sardars, who were opposing TTP.
So why is this institution so important .... because an institution of decision making and unity of tribes has been neutralized to a certain degree by the militants armed more heavily than a normal tribesman, which can be used to stop this cancer. Further,
weaker social fabric and this tribal institution will benefit TTP in the form of increase recruitment of manpower & influence of militancy in Tribal Area.
2- Geographically NW is not a continuous or plain area as Sawat or Punjab, were the army can cordon-off the whole area and can move in to launch a massive operation.
We need to have a support of common tribesmen, in the form of Intelligence or simply 'Buddy System'
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Please understand that it is the first time that the leadership of TTP has gone out of Tribal Area, or I should say it has gone out from Pakistan .....
it is a curse and a blessing at the same time..... we can safely assume foreign influence over the decision making of current TTP leadership ..... and if it is true as we think than the
main retaliation will not come from North Waziristan it will be from our Settle Areas all over Pakistan particularly Central Punjab, Rawalpindi and Potohar region, Quetta and adjacent areas and Karachi.
4- Any full scale military operation will lead IDP Crises, which will have its impacts on political, social, economical dynamics of settled areas including metropolis centers (will not discussing in detail about political angle), but
it will increase the probability of 'lone wolf' at initial stage, on later stages they may join to form new Wolf pack associated with TTP,in short new recruitment grounds for TTP and other anti national elements from inside & outside
5- There are 40-50 or some says 60 groups under TTP, having estimated strength of 40-50 thousand guerrillas by any far fetch estimate, spread in all over Pakistan, so
TTP is just an 'Umbrella Organizations' & most of the groups are 'autonomous' in their operations & in their area of operation,
only 'some groups' cooperate with each other over some 'major operations' and degree of cooperation varies depending upon the importance of Operation and Groups involve.I can bet most of the people can't name top ten groups of TTP and their leaders.
6- So
in that case we cannot have 'Single Strategy' for everyone, we are bound to deal with different groups differently and in 'different geographical areas', here one more important factor is foreign elements which we have to take care, we have no information to say that this number of groups are under 'foreign influence', there are some groups for sure but how many .... ??. and obviously those compromised group will follow foreign agenda under disguise of TTP ideology.
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Is full fledge operation in North Waziristan a solution to our problem .... ?? most of the people now a days claiming this, but to me its not, as stated earlier TTP has spread in all over Pakistan and its not the only form of terrorism which we are facing (would not discuss others as the issue in debate is NW operation and TTP), please
try to understand the strategically placement of TTP assets in all those area of Pakistan having strategic value in terms of Economy, Politics & National sentiments.Without any well thought strategy is it possible .... ? To me it’s not possible, and
if I am not wrong than the strategic objective is bigger than our perception.
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Related to this point outcome of previous army operations is us under
Sources: GTD, SATP, Google Data.
pls observe we launched '
Operation Sunrise (Lal Masjid) operation' in
July 2007,
first Sawat operation in
October 2007, compare the figures of 2007 with figures for the period of 2003-2006
By Data it is clear that second half of 2007 was more bloody than the previous 4 years of 2003-2006 combined, and in 2008 this fight get more intensified due to which we launched two more operations
Rah-e-Rast & Operation Rah-e-Nijat in Sawat and South Waziristan in
2009
So in short military operation has caused us
41,966 lives and
4,824 attacks in 5 years, only thing which we gain from those operations is 'TTP' if someone count it as a gain.
9- One more thing which we should understand that our militancy problem is the outcome of Lal Masjid operation of 2007, we gave them a reason to exploit, this time it’s logical to avoid any such thing, I believe we don't want TTP and other terrorist to use another excuse, This time we may witness Nationalism chant with religious angle, a very dangerous mixture for any movement
10- There was a reason our military resist NW operation in 2004, 2005, 2007 & 2009 that reason exist even today, though as an unwanted liability, one day or other foreigner will pack their bags and leave this region, but we have to live here do we have any escape route …. ??
11- So what should we do leave everything as it is …. ?? And let our hose burn down into ashes …. ?? No one says this we do have alternatives available, which does not restrict the use of appropriate force with the political engagement, I term it as the buddy system.