BINGO. . . !
I'll ask a very innocently worded question
what did TTP do that was "good" for Pakistan?
I know you have a more Pashtun-nationalist leaning and are more critical of Pakistan (despite being a citizen). Can you tell me from your own perspective how TTP demonstrated that they are good Pashtuns who follow tribal traditions.
We Pashtuns have used the tribal jirga system since before Islam even existed. How do you feel about TTP's suicide attacks against tribal elders? Isn't this the worst crime imaginable for you?
We more tribal Pashtuns are a bit possesive over the dignity of our women. How do you feel about TTP thugs in Swat who were breaking in to homes and forcing fathers to give them their daughters' hand at marriage?
Can you imagine as a Pashtun (or anybody really) someone break into your home, disrespect you (in your own home!) and threaten to kill you if you dont let them satisfy their sadistic wants and needs?
If you are worth your salt, you would want to fight them too. Regardless of whether your loyalties are more to Pashtun-ism than Pakistanism.
they have killed in the name of religion, damaged our lands and property, bombed indiscriminately (even Mosques) and displaced people
is that not the height of cowardice?
You have mistaken me for a Taliban sympathizer, i just disagree on defination of cowardice. Calling talibans dogs, cowards, kafirs etc are childish and emotional rantings...they are not cowards, they are brave and ruthless with twisted mentality...unlike mommy daddy type members who eat burgers, drink cola , play PS3 games and chant "kill them all" at talibans, i have deeper understanding of a talib, i have communicated with them.....
Germans under hitler were also twisted but they were not cowards. Talibans have no regards for pashtun values and culture but they are ethnically pashtuns, with martial traits. On top of that jihaadi spirit makes them more formidable...it is important to study their roots to defeat them, their roots are pashtun ethnicity and deoband school of thought. We have also have punjabi talibans and uzbeks and other foriegn elements.
If you ask from any taliban that what is their justification of killing innocent civilians in bomb blasts? They say that allah would grant these innocent casualties jannat, what else a muslim want more than jannat? . The suicide bombers carry a ticket for jannat in his pocket and maulana has told him that his head would shoot directly towards jannat....we are not dealing with some rebels, we are dealing with a fitna on scale of hasan bin sabah....
I am not hypocrite like most of pakistanis, i am against both kind of talibans , good or bad, they are same for me...pakistan is not fighting against taliban ideology , only against those talibans who are anti-state. ISI has poisoned my pashtun nation with talibanization, they are still sponsering them in Afghanistan. All deobandi madrassas are breeding talibans, JUI has links with both Talibans and ISI...the list goes on.
Calling TTP as RAW and Mossad agents is childish bakwas. It is a religous ideology which cant be suppressed with just military operations, bombardments and drones. As pashtuns they are resilient, they wont bent their knees in defeat, how long pak army is going to fight them like this?. Pak army has conducted several successful military operations against them TTP is still there...
Long term policy is needed to deal with them. You have to purify mullah , mosque and madrassa.