I was serious. both of you appear to be incapable to learn from history. military operations is never an option against your own people...
Define our own people.
Who are our own people?
That is what you need to learn fast.
You are only thinking in terms of US war in Afghanistan, I am thinking way ahead of that.
It does not matter whether USA stays or leaves, if left unchecked the states within a state will only grow stronger.
The militancy itself is a huge problem, good militant or bad militant can only by confirmed once you ask them to lay down arms or sacrifice themselves for the sake of the state and not their personal agenda...however by that time it is usually too late.
Right now the only measure of what constitutes as pro Pakistani groups is their reluctance to take on Pakistan Army openly...otherwise be it ideological support or logistical support or even training etc. all the groups whether anti or pro Pakistan have had commonality and cooperation.
Recent murder of Col Imam and resulting inaction by all factions against Hakimullah should open your eyes to this fact!
So in reality, they are all different faces of a connected network.
Who has interest in the future of a stable, prosperous and moderate Pakistan?
Certainly not the types we are suggesting to disarm and take on.
Anyone who raises an illegal army in our country is not our own people.
Anyone who is implementing his own laws and running a parallel government over the poor Pakistani people under his hold, is indeed a rebel and needs to be taken out by the military if not possible to do so by the law enforcement agencies!
You can ask the people of Swat what they think of their own people who terrorized, tortured and butchered all the people who wanted to lead their lives free of the so called "shariat" of the terrorists.
You think we acted against our own people in Swat?
Then god help you.
If you think we did the right think in Swat, then do you know where the militants came from and overwhelmed Swat?
Which religious party or militant faction including all the so called good factions did you see publicly condemning the terrorism being perpetrated in Swat in the name of Islam?
By all accounts Sufi Muhammad was asked to condemn Fazlullah in the grand gathering in Swat, he was supposed to address the people and let them know that rebelling against their own country and running a parallel system is not right. He was supposed to condemn the violence and brutality undertaken by the TTP in Swat
however when he saw a throng of people gathered to hear him speak, the Mullah was tempted by the opportunity and instead bombarded the government in his speech.
No mention of the murder spree of the scum of the earth called Maulvi Fazlullah
no mention of the bizarre and brutal laws of the TTP. Clearly that was not something that mattered to Sufi Muhammad.
But what else is new?
This rascal Sufi Muhammad got thousands of Pakistanis killed in Afghanistan when he took a lashkar to aid the Taliban
only he and a few hundred of his henchmen managed to return.
These rascals shall save their hide every time and throw others into the pits of hell in order to serve their personal agenda.
Such is the character of our people.
These are not our people by a long shot, they shall never submit to a stable Pakistan.
Their interests are in no way convergent with what suits Pakistan in the long run.
So, now if our government asks a group to lay down arms and they do not...they are not our people are they?
To be our people they need to listen to us.
A person who raises arms against his country and actively participates in destroying it, forfeits the right of citizenship.
Let us test the pro Pakistan groups if there are any, let us ask them to disarm.
If they are indeed our people, they should do it...otherwise we should realize that they are no more in our control.
What is the proper response to an armed rebel who is unwilling to lay down arms and whose agenda is destruction of a state and its citizens by spreading militancy and using terror tactics.
The core of these militants is maximum 20,000 Strong, break their back and you shall diminish their influence permanently over our society in the long run.
That is what we should aim for in order to bring stability within our ranks.
Like i said, we need to ensure judiciary and law enforcement agencies are allowed to function here and play the role which only they can play.
Build cases on the traitors and terrorists and their support structure and prosecute them.
Slowly and surely we can eliminate this Fitna.
The solution which i proposed is not military centric, we shall use military only where the judiciary and law enforcement agencies are not allowed to operate.
Once the area is clear of a parallel state and relatively stable, we need to prosecute the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
Our war should be about bringing terrorists/supporters to justice in order to secure the future of Pakistan from the tafkiris whose goal is clearly to destroy Pakistan and rule over the chunks of land that they can hold militarily.
I am sure if there are any good factions who are our people, they would not object to these goals.
