Pakistan marks two years since start of Operation Zarb-e-Azb

[Zain Malik]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday stressed on the need to fight poverty, unemployment, instability alongside battling terrorism, as the country marked two years since the start of operation Zarb-e-Azb.

An all-out military offensive against local and foreign terrorists, Zarb-e-Azb was launched on June 15, 2014 following a brazen militant attack on Karachi's international airport and the failure of peace talks between the government and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) negotiators.

In a special statement marking two years of the operation, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is recuperating in London after an open heart surgery, said the backbone of terrorists has been broken and that they would soon be thrown into the dustbin of history.

"We need to turn Pakistan into a cradle of peace…Pakistani nation is like a brick wall against internal and external foes," he said.

He said the nation was united for the defence of the country.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif, who lead the country's crucial war against battle hardened terrorists, also visited North and South Waziristan agencies near the Afghan border on Tuesday.

He spent the day with tribal people and army officials. The army chief’s are also focused on the rehabilitation and return of the locals who were displaced from the tribal agency.

The army chief assured that the internally displaced persons' resettlement would continue and be completed before the end of 2016.

"Focus within FATA (Federal Administered Tribal Areas) now will be on efficient border management to prevent cross border movement," he said.

For enduring stability, Intelligence Based Operations IBOs and combing operations will continue with the same vigor across the country, he said.

 

[CENTCOM]

Two years ago the Pakistani military took a difficult but essential decision to engage in a full-scale operation against the home-grown insurgency attacking innocent Pakistanis, and even children. The Army Public School massacre further proved how little they valued the life of innocent children, or their fellow countrymen. Throughout history, we have witnessed, that insurgency warfare is one of the most difficult types of warfare to engage in. What we can aim for however, is the dismantling and disabling of the threat to a degree where it becomes incapable of reviving and reorganizing. In these past two years, the Pakistani military has seen tremendous success in dismantling, curbing and curtailing the insurgency on their soil. They have also sacrificed many of their own. The issue of home-grown terrorism is an issue for us all to deal with. You have been aware of the attacks here and in France, Belgium, as we have seen the attacks on Pakistani soil. This plague of violent extremism is what we all have to dismantle and destroy, not just by force, but by eliminating their violent and intolerant narrative.

As President Obama has stated before, “Ideologies are not defeated with guns. They’re defeated by better ideas—a more attractive, more compelling vision.” This is the larger battle, and one that the entire international community has to face in the long term. We have to, collectively, provide people with the better narrative - one that would help those who are brainwashed by violent ideologies to choose education, progress and prosperity over destruction of entire societies.

Haroon Ahmad
DET – U.S. CENTCOM
www.facebook.com/centcomurdu

 

[Solomon2]

...As President Obama has stated before, “Ideologies are not defeated with guns. They’re defeated by better ideas—a more attractive, more compelling vision.”

People need courage to express their ideas. In Pakistan the conviction that dissent will be punished with death from the hands not just of terrorists but from one's own associates raises the courage bar very high. So the promotion of a dissent-tolerant society is needed to propagate the "better ideas" President Obama hopes Pakistanis will develop.

Attempts to teach tolerance fail when teachers are threatened with death. The murderers believe that their act will take them straight to heaven so enforcement of the law is only a partial deterrent. What you have to do, then, is to silence or drown out the promoters of intolerance. Which in itself is an intolerant act.

It's a paradox that can only be resolved by breaking, at least temporarily, the customs of a free society. People with the weapons to make the difference must grasp that they cannot tolerate those who successfully promote intolerance of their existence as a free society. But once you've traveled the road to hell that's paved with good intentions, how do you come back? Especially if you've been brought up to believe not in the checks-and-balances of a functioning democracy, but that the more power one accumulates the better?

 

[salarsikander]

People need courage to express their ideas. In Pakistan the conviction that dissent will be punished with death from the hands not just of terrorists but from one's own associates raises the courage bar very high. So the promotion of a dissent-tolerant society is needed to propagate the "better ideas" President Obama hopes Pakistanis will develop.

Attempts to teach tolerance fail when teachers are threatened with death. The murderers believe that their act will take them straight to heaven so enforcement of the law is only a partial deterrent. What you have to do, then, is to silence or drown out the promoters of intolerance. Which in itself is an intolerant act.

It's a paradox that can only be resolved by breaking, at least temporarily, the customs of a free society. People with the weapons to make the difference must grasp that they cannot tolerate those who successfully promote intolerance of their existence as a free society. But once you've traveled the road to hell that's paved with good intentions, how do you come back? Especially if you've been brought up to believe not in the checks-and-balances of a functioning democracy, but that the more power one accumulates the better?

LOL this is not israel, where Palestinians rae kept in an open prison and jounralists are beaten up if they report the news. If such were the case you wouldnt find likes of Hamid MIR, asma jehagnir, Pervaiz hoodboy or marvi sarmad for that matter

 

[Solomon2]

LOL this is not israel,..

False analogy fallacies, since (1) the issues you cite aren't a form of tyranny applied to Israeli society and (2) even if the situations you have in mind are true, you are assuming they must be unjust.

When we first started discussing matters a few month back you were unsure of these things. I think you then started investigating for yourself the truth of matters. You were then faced with a stark choice: either to accept that what you learned in school, mosque, or media were slanders about Israel, or else join the hate-driven thong, knowing for sure that you were promoting evil but would be "safe" from the threat of violence I discussed in my previous post.

As J.K. Rowling put it, "a choice between what is right and what is easy" - and you've sided with the intolerant Death Eaters. So in effect you are either allied with the TTP terrorists or competing with them to fill the same violent niche.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Two years ago the Pakistani military took a difficult but essential decision to engage in a full-scale operation against the home-grown insurgency attacking innocent Pakistanis, and even children. The Army Public School massacre further proved how little they valued the life of innocent children, or their fellow countrymen. Throughout history, we have witnessed, that insurgency warfare is one of the most difficult types of warfare to engage in. What we can aim for however, is the dismantling and disabling of the threat to a degree where it becomes incapable of reviving and reorganizing. In these past two years, the Pakistani military has seen tremendous success in dismantling, curbing and curtailing the insurgency on their soil. They have also sacrificed many of their own. The issue of home-grown terrorism is an issue for us all to deal with. You have been aware of the attacks here and in France, Belgium, as we have seen the attacks on Pakistani soil. This plague of violent extremism is what we all have to dismantle and destroy, not just by force, but by eliminating their violent and intolerant narrative.

As President Obama has stated before, “Ideologies are not defeated with guns. They’re defeated by better ideas—a more attractive, more compelling vision.” This is the larger battle, and one that the entire international community has to face in the long term. We have to, collectively, provide people with the better narrative - one that would help those who are brainwashed by violent ideologies to choose education, progress and prosperity over destruction of entire societies.

Haroon Ahmad
DET – U.S. CENTCOM
www.facebook.com/centcomurdu

WRONG assumption. This aint "home grown" insurgency. On countless occasions, the Pakistan military high command has emphatically said that both Kabul regime and Indian presence inside Afghanistan who are the mentors of these animals.

Question is which is actually related to you. Why all this happening right under the nose of American occupational forces inside Afghanistan.

 

[salarsikander]

False analogy fallacies, since (1) the issues you cite aren't a form of tyranny applied to Israeli society and (2) even if the situations you have in mind are true, you are assuming they must be unjust.

When we first started discussing matters a few month back you were unsure of these things. I think you then started investigating for yourself the truth of matters. You were then faced with a stark choice: either to accept that what you learned in school, mosque, or media were slanders about Israel, or else join the hate-driven thong, knowing for sure that you were promoting evil but would be "safe" from the threat of violence I discussed in my previous post.

As J.K. Rowling put it, "a choice between what is right and what is easy" - and you've sided with the intolerant Death Eaters. So in effect you are either allied with the TTP terrorists or competing with them to fill the same violent niche.

According to you whole world is blind and invaders nkilling is justified , which is not even worthy of condemnation from since you act like a very just person,but when it comes to Israel you will conveniently ignore the truth

False analogy fallacies, since (1) the issues you cite aren't a form of tyranny applied to Israeli society and (2) even if the situations you have in mind are true, you are assuming they must be unjust.

When we first started discussing matters a few month back you were unsure of these things. I think you then started investigating for yourself the truth of matters. You were then faced with a stark choice: either to accept that what you learned in school, mosque, or media were slanders about Israel, or else join the hate-driven thong, knowing for sure that you were promoting evil but would be "safe" from the threat of violence I discussed in my previous post.

As J.K. Rowling put it, "a choice between what is right and what is easy" - and you've sided with the intolerant Death Eaters. So in effect you are either allied with the TTP terrorists or competing with them to fill the same violent niche.

Lol I acknowledge the shortxoming unlike you as a terrorist natoj hiding all the crimes and still acting alike victims. What a loser

 

[Solomon2]

nkilling... a terrorist natoj...shortxoming

You're allowed your own opinion but not your own spelling. Being incomprehensible doesn't win you an argument.

 

[salarsikander]

You're allowed your own opinion but not your own spelling. Being incomprehensible doesn't win you an argument.

Lol, and this is your argument for a guy who is using phone ATM. Cheap very cheap

 

[Solomon2]

Lol, and this is your argument for a guy who is using phone ATM. Cheap very cheap

You seem to be saying, "Yah, yah, I have a mouth and a gun and you just have a mouth, I'll kill people if I want to and blame you for it, yah, yah!"

Not the sort of fellow to turn Pakistan into "a cradle of peace" at all - just more murders and hate and destruction. Is that what you really want?

 

[mikkix]

Soon we will celebrate 50th birthday of this stupid fight which results only earning some money.

 

[Solomon2]

Plz keep me away from such nonsense slander. To justify your crimes youmwill present Pakistani argument -

What we have demonstrated here is that the "Pakistani argument" leads to all sorts of logical conclusions that make no sense at all, hence it is quite invalid.

So currently you're standing with the Death Eaters. Maybe you're doing it out of fear. Maybe you're doing it out of conviction. Maybe you're doing it because you'd rather feel pride in yourself rather than know yourself to be a coward. Maybe it's a mix of all the above. And I'm the one saying that to regain your sanity that train of thought and action has to be shifted into reverse, then turned to another track and direction.

 

[salarsikander]

What we have demonstrated here is that the "Pakistani argument" leads to all sorts of logical conclusions that make no sense at all, hence it is quite invalid.

So currently you're standing with the Death Eaters. Maybe you're doing it out of fear. Maybe you're doing it out of conviction. Maybe you're doing it because you'd rather feel pride in yourself rather than know yourself to be a coward. Maybe it's a mix of all the above. And I'm the one saying that to regain your sanity that train of thought and action has to be shifted into reverse, then turned to another track and direction.

No I'm against Palestinian eaters the one who subjectively denies the innocent loss of life on daily basis and presents argument s on pakistan . how rich

 

[Solomon2]

No I'm against Palestinian eaters the one who subjectively denies the innocent loss of life on daily basis and presents argument s on pakistan . how rich

And I say you're running on empty by pushing ad hominem fallacies.

I presume you are attempting to paper over the topic I raised earlier in the thread: that you've sided with the Death Eaters against Pakistanis who wish to be free from tyranny. So, dear reader, is salarsikander succeeding with you?

 

[salarsikander]

And I say you're running on empty by pushing ad hominem fallacies.

I presume you are attempting to paper over the topic I raised earlier in the thread: that you've sided with the Death Eaters against Pakistanis who wish to be free from tyranny. So, dear reader, is salarsikander succeeding with you?

You have been brainwashed to a level where you have no respect for humans let alone human right. You fail to speak or address them. The fear of repercussions or perhaps isolation from your society is what is causing all of this