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Irfan Baloch
Thanks for the translation, I agree with your comments as well.
The author is a bit myopic in his view and is more concerned about internal politics against his party and looking for a solution within Pakistan. Imran Khan and his cadre most likely will not reach far in coming up with a solution or getting rid of the Taliban and its support base if this is the view, It would be better to look at this Taliban problem in a more wider perspective with what information that we have been reading for a while now.
Why the TTP exists and came into being?
Assumptions that the TTP was formed because of American presence may not be true - if it was true then they would be attacking American assets and interests in Pakistan but instead they are killing Pakistani civilians, officials, girls like Malala, kill polio workers and indulge in local sectarian violence and issuing fatwas. They are more keen on implementing their brand of Sharia and hatred for other sects. The clear indication here is their existence is there for a totally different purpose than to oppose American presence. Of course, they project the American presence and Pakistan's support as a cause, but their goals are completely different and that goal matches with what's happening elsewhere in the ME, Africa, CAR and to an extent in SE Asia.
NATO presence and it's opposite resistance force presence did fuel and provide manpower for the formation of TTP, but it would have anyway been formed because of the lawless region of Afghanistan pre 2001 which became a hot bed of jihaadi groups from all over the world.
Assumptions that the TTP gets funding from the CIA or RAW may not be true - if it was true than American forces and Indian forces wouldn't be fighting the forces that carry the same mentality elsewhere. Given a chance a TTP like group would have been formed in India or any other country, so we know the dangers of aiding such people.
Secondly, for an insurgency movement certain requirements exist like Manpower, material, ideology, cause, leadership and of course money.
If one views logically then neither India or the US can provide groups like the TTP with the
ideology (because our ideologies don't match with such groups, we aren't even from the the same time period or the same world) and
leadership (because we do not follow the same religion, or have people in leadership positions like sultans, caliphs, dictators or kings) ,
manpower (because we do not have the many thousands of Brainwashed Muslim youth in our country who can or are willing to do jihaad for a global Muslim cause - though if we are not careful then we too can become a source of it),
material (to an extent yes, but the taliban uses Soviet, Chinese or locally sourced weapons and explosives and not American or Indian ones).
The only possible thing that we can provide is money, but any reasonable person would know that with the availability of petro dollars, mining interests, donations, drug trafficking, money laundering, weapon trafficking, piracy, extortion and other shady business interests such groups do not need our few millions for their cause.
One reason that comes out to the fore for the TTP's existence is it's part of the global jihaad group that's presently in operation in other Islamic countries, their ideology of an "Islamic state of Pakistan run on Jihaad" matches with this global phenomena, their fighters, trainers, weapons and leadership are also sourced and supplied from the same pool that groups like ISIS, ISIL, AQIM, Al Shabab, Boko Haram and numerous other groups that are fighting in Russia, Syria, Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan draw from.
Thirdly, Pakistan hasn't come up with any proof of RAW, CIA involvement because most likely none exist.
I suspect that all these groups come under the umbrella of international groups under Al Qaeda. Pakistan is quoted as the Al Qaeda core and TTP as a collaborator of AQ.
So the assumption by the author that the TTP menace is a local problem or are formed because of American presence and aided by India is most likely wrong and you are looking at the wrong sources and the wrong reasons for its existence and sustenance.
Coming to the solution, I think localized operations and actions against these groups in individual countries will not yield satisfying results and will not eradicate such groups completely, they'll just keep evacuating if it becomes too much to handle and move into a different sector or country.
Ideally and a difficult, near impossible option is taking an international approach by all affected countries together to wipe out their source of manpower, weapons, ideology, leadership and money without which I don't think we can wipe the whole menace completely.
