The author failed to or should've helped the readers if he had quoted a few statements given by Imran Khan on 'The End of War on Terror', that way the readers would've had a comprehensive idea of where IK is flawed, and with his (Brigadier's) insights he should've cleared those flaws with factual analysis. The only thing I see flawed about IK's analysis as stated by the author is with the dates - I don't see any other reason why the author had to call his ideas as flawed.
The dates are not the issue. Here the author clearly states that Imran Khan's logic that WOT caused all this is wrong and completely flawed. His theory of resolving this issue in 90 days is utterly ridiculous not to mention the consequences in the long run. In my opinion, the reason behind all this was lack of writ, laws and governance over decades which resulted in tribals and foreign elements enforcing unlawful inhumane laws which they believe are 'Islamic'.
As mentioned earlier, the government made efforts for development of these areas. However, it met stiff resistance against schools, health care and etc. They murdered NGOS, officials, FC troops and others.
The irony in all this is here we have Imran Khan's party named Tehreek-E-Insaf preaching against laws of the land being implemented in these areas. He has repeatedly said in his interviews that Pakistani laws are not applicable in tribal belt.
Imran Khan is very straight in his logic, and he says once we 'stop' being seen as US Ultra-puppets, support for terrorists/radicals/extremists will drop and once that happens it will be far easier to deal with them. Now I don't see why IK is flawed here - anybody with a conscious mind would understand that IK is absolutely spot on. Now, either the author failed to understand his logic or he just called it flawed out of shear envious (of his popularity) and in contrast to that, didn't bother to provide a conclusion/outcome of how to get-out of this mess created by Musharraf.
I think the author clearly indicates his counter points in the article as to why Imran Khan is wrong in all this. The area in question was lawless and had several questionable elements prior to WOT.
Read this part again:
The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, directly contributed to religious extremism in Fata and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). In November 1994, the Afghan-Taliban captured Kandahar. The same month the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi initiated a movement for the implementation of Sharia in Malakand Division. Within no time, armed militants took control of the whole of Malakand Division. A sitting PPP MPA was shot dead. Men were forced to wear watches on their right hand and traffic was made to ply on the right hand, the left being un-Islamic. It took Frontier Corps more than a month to dislodge militants and regain control of the area.
In September 1996, the Afghan Taliban captured Kabul. Many tribal and other Pakistanis formed part of the Taliban fighting force. In 1997, a small Taliban force started operating in Orakzai Agency. In 1998, the Taliban emerged in North Waziristan Agency and by 1999 they were in control of Mirali. By 2000, the Taliban had spread to Bajaur and some other parts of Malakand Division. As early as 2000 in Peshawar, force was used by militants against cable operators to stop their operations. An organised movement was run against NGOs. A maulvi from Dir issued an edict that any NGO woman found in the area should be apprehended and taken as a wife.
It amazes me how naive our pseudo intellectuals are and how they see FATA people causing more terrorrism than America in the world - where there were no name of terrorism in Pakistan (linking them to FATA) but as soon as the US lands in Afghanistan and Musharraf becomes the executive just before that - the sky break loos and the patriotic FATA people are termed as terrorists/radicals/extremists and what not - who safeguarded our country for ages, shame on you people calling them all this.
Patriotic? these people blew up schools for women. Termed polio vaccine against Islam and god knows what else.
Imran Khan very rightly said in an interview to NDTV, ''These liberal-fascist are the scum of Pakistan''. Musharraf was/is a liberal fascist and just because of his absolute flawed policies, 35000 Pakistani lost their precious lives today - the author failed to mentioned this prime-factor in his whole analysis for obvious reasons. The author failed to termed Musharraf as a criminal and he should've suggested, a criminal should be dealt accordingly.
That is completely incorrect. The real scum here are the people proclaiming the guardians of law who support lawless tribal radicals hell bent on enforcing laws against our constitution and those who challenge the writ of the state. Time and again, they have repeatedly done so. Prior to 2002, we tolerated such elements or perhaps ignored but it had to end. This cancerous lawlessness would have been fatal for Pakistan.
Musharraf was NOT responsible for the 35k people you speak of. They were murdered by these 'tribal' foreign elements residing in these areas. If Imran Khan is soo appalled by the US violating our sovereignity he should equally voice his disgust over those elements who use Pakistani land to spread menace within Pakistan and beyond.
We have to establish writ of state at all costs.
