You are getting wrong...not advocating any negotiating with criminals. But if a criminal is a criminal then there are no double standards. Start this prosecution with ZARDARI himself.Do you think he is not a criminal? Why not bomb NAT HOUSE in GUJRAT, PUNJAB. Is it not a criminal den? You think these are acceptable, come back to me on this in 1 year time & lets see where we stand.
There are different levels of crime - how on earth can you put a white collar criminal like Zardari in the same category as suicide bombing, innocent children killing terrorists?
The GoP and Musharraf had his chance to try and convict BB, NS and Zardari during his eight years in office - now the man is legally free and innocent until the NRO gets overturned and he is shown to be guilty in a court of law.
On the other hand the Taliban are openly and proudly claiming responsibility for their actions, and we have audio intercepts of them talking about carrying out suicide bombings. And we have their actions after the Swat deal. The case against them is clear.
Should we move against militant groups in Punjab - absolutely, but if we can avoid doing so until we take care of FATA first, and avoid opening too many fronts, then all the better. But if need be we need to bomb the groups that challenge the State in Punjab as well, if other options do not work.
In my case I dont like to fool myself by just mere slogans. Indiscriminate shelling & airstrikes just provide TALIBAN with more recruits If these tactics were successful, the battle in AFGHNISTAN should have been over years back and end of TALIBAN STORY
Try to understand what I have written, these operations no matter how right they are can never be successful with the type of people on top. In 1965 war, AYUB KHAN moved to OPS room with BED & BUNK. In 71 YAHYA KHAN was having a house warming & getting drunk while the war was going on.
What indiscriminate shelling? Please read through the thread that had reports by foreign correspondents taken on a tour through Swat and Mingora - most of them expressed surprise at the the lack of damage, because they had assumed the Army and AF were 'indiscriminately shelling'. As the Army and PAF have clarified, artillery and Air strikes have not been used in populated areas, and the AF has used precision guided weapons.
Talking about 'indiscriminate shelling', when there is no evidence indicating such, is nothing but taliban propaganda. Have civilian casualties occurred- yes. But what do you expect when the Army has to be called into remove 4000 to 7000 terrorists who have taken over a region? Even low level police encounters result in civilian casualties, and here we are talking about a full fledged military operation against thousands of heavily armed and trained terrorists.
The insurgencey in Afghanistan continues because of the presence of a foreign force, that provides a national justification for waging a 'freedom struggle'. The Taliban in Pakistan are not waging a 'freedom struggle' - they are waging a fight to impose their barbaric form of Islam on all Pakistanis. And we saw the result of what happened when the government agreed with all their demands and implemented a ceasefire and Nizam-e-adl.
People like you rant and rant about 'indiscriminate shelling and military operations don't work' - pray tell me, what do you expect Pakistan to do now that even negotiations have failed?
We implemented their demands, we imposed Shariah and appointed Qazi's in Swat. The Taliban did not disarm, they expanded. So what do you expect us to do? Line up our mothers and sisters so they can receive chither from a bunch of 'brave, strong Taliban Mullah's'?
How about you take the first step and send your mother, sister or daughter up there to get whipped and beaten publicly for being born a woman.
Then watch as someone else from your family gets beheaded for complaining.
What do you expect Pakistan to do now that even negotiating with the Taliban and giving into their demand for Shariah has failed?
....you may have an alternative view
