Taliban Gain Foothold in a Pakistani City

[Pulsar]

“We have yet to decide who is our real enemy, and the Taliban are taking advantage of this confusion,” said Afrasiab Khattak of the Awami National Party, which governed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa until the last election, when it won just one seat.

The real enemy in within, and not India which is the favorite whipping boy and a scape-goat for Pakistani politicians to cover their failures and incompetency.

Further, the drummed-up threat and anti India paranoia by the PA is calculated to arm itself to the teeth with increasing defence budgets and buying fancy warlike toys by convincing a gullible public that they are the only salvation for Pakistan and Islam, without which they would be sidelined by the people and a democratically elected government. Being non entities in the overall scheme of things is not what the PA wants.

However, it is encouraging to know that a shift has recently occurred in the PAs thinking whereby they have conceded that the real threat is internal and not India.

 

[AHMED85]

We don't need less Madrasas. We need ten times more Madrasas.

We need to have ANTI-TALIBAN , ANTI-TTP MADRASSAS.

You have to fight fire with fire.

One thing i notifying you in GWOT Pakistan loss its many friends so you have lack of resource to counter them..

You need to play fire with fireman not with fire..so decision will save all of us, let see the result..

Last many time they targeted law enforcement so they need to protect them selves from the hell fire of INDIA & other countries spy workers...

 

[PeaceGen]

my recommendation:
(1) outlaw all religious schools that preach hatred towards, or allow violence towards, other (sub-)cultures.
(2) check (1) all the time.

 

[Jango]

Going by this logic, Karachi is under Taliban control as well, the whole of FATA is under Taliban control and so are a couple of other areas...

Having control of an area and doing bomb blasts/extortion are 2 different things.

 

[haviZsultan]

Taliban are spilling out of the tribal areas and making settled areas their homes. No one is doing anything at all to stop them. They are rampaging across the countryside and killing innocents with impunity. Terrorists should be utterly vanquished for their crimes against Pakistan. We need to conduct a massive operation modeled on operation Black Thunderstorm or Rah E Raast (The one operation that has returned peace to Swat-even though militants are striking there once again.)

Till now only the bajaur operation and the operation Black Thunderstorm have been successful in eradicating militancy and dislodging them from their positions.