What do you do? Cocaine??
Obviously pre 2001 situation was veru different and no suicide attacks. duh!!
Mushy started killing and capturing Mujahideen (including afghan taliban, arabs, ***** etc etc).. TTP was created in response (with blessings from Mullah Omar) to Counter Pakistan because Pakistan is a USA Ally. Mullah Omar has repeatedly asked in his sermons to attack AMERICA AND ALL ITS ALLIES..
Mushy started operation in 2002~4 etc, then TTP banded togather kinda and started killing in Pakistan.. After 2007 (lal masjid) TTP really got a boost and has wrecked HAVOC killing HUNDREDS of SOLDIERS..
Pls get this out of your THICK brain that TTP terrorists are CIA funded. Infact Pakistan Army is CIA funded (18 billion dollars is NOT a small amount)... and CIA has killed the TOP leadership and TTP (naik mohammed, baitullah mehsud, wali ur rehman amongst dozens of others through drones.. this is what Pakistan Army couldnt do)!
As far as peace talks, TTP has repeatedly said they are ready for peace as long as their demands are met (release their captured terrorists, end army bases in tribal areas, end to war on terror etc..) Even hakimullah came in a video and said this..
Oh and Aghan Taliban and TTP are like brothers with different strategies. Both support each other. Google a video by the title "Bunyan um Marsoos"...
Thank you
What do you do? ... Let me guess ... NEDO!!
I specifically asked you to do some digging... before posting this western media non-sense here. Did it ever occured to you who gave TTP all those weapons, logistics, strategic planning and training, real time intel about movements of Pak army etc.? I am sure no such thing ever happened to you as you decided to took media's word as word of Gospel and now it is very difficult for you to comprehend that Afghan Taliban never operated outside Afghanistan (check tribune express link). It was only TTP who claimed that they are working under Afghan Taliban's command, how many times Afghan Taliban own TTP like that?
I have no idea how on earth, someone got authentic views of the most elusive person in contemporary war history. i.e. Mullah Omar. So, I will take all those claims that TTP was made by Mullah Omar's blessings with lots of suspicions!
FYI, Pakistan army intel units began working in FATA after the US bombed Tora Bora without informing Pakistan in advance so that we could have seal our side of border and crush these Salfi hardcore Takfeeri militants right there and then. But when you have allies like the US, who need enemies! As far as 18 billions is concerned, (even if this exaggerated figure is correct in the first place) a major share of this money is reimbursement for the money Pakistan army spent to get a self-inflicted wound. Sir, TTP was formed in 2005, not in 2001, while Pakistan had been an US ally since 2001. If it was a reactionary force then why did it took them 4 years to rise? Any explanation? And if they are not getting help from hostile agencies who are working against Pakistan from Afghanistan, then who is providing Rs. 20,000 /- month to every TTP fighter? Even if we consider a small band of 12000 men... you can calculate the amount they need every month just to pay for salaries. I haven't included weapons, logistics yet!! Now use your very very THIN common sense ( if it is there) and elaborate me that money trail which is keeping them strong like this even after Pakistan Army over ran their strongholds in South Waziristan some 4 years ago.
Sir jee, These are advanced (4th and 5th generation) dirty wars? Ops! Do you have any idea what i am talking about here? I am afraid NOT, And as far as that video is concerned, again it is produced by Al-Cia'eda's media wing and not by Afghan Taliban!!
If CIA is so anti-TTP, how come it always eliminate leaders of TTP who wants to have some kind of peace agreement with PA. ( though their intentions might be debatable but that is a separate issue). Did you ever bother you THIN common sense to inquire the fact that why Hakeemullah Mehsud's peace offers were never responded like Naik Muhammad or Gul Bahadur. (both killed by CIA to sabotage peace deal just like Wali Rehman recently)?
Now some education for your THIN common Sense!
You can eliminate terrorists and terrorism using military means alone, but eliminating an ideologically motivated insurgency requires an entirely different kind of response strategy. Pakistan Army and government is fighting this war without any national security strategy and that's why there is no end to this war in sight! Develop a multi-pronged response strategy under a clearly defined national security policy first, then devise a path to eliminate the rationale of insurgents. Else, keep bombing your own homeland and you will never succeed. Because you just cannot bomb an idea!