Since neither the funds nor the political will nor practical possibility exists to replicate the Israeli barrier at Gaza at the Afghanistan border - the only way is to increase education while targeting extremists both in society (removing extremist preachers) and a combination of reeducation camps and basic “removal” of the fringe elements. Kinetic operations against elements operating both in and out of Afghanistan while addressing immediate needs of people impacted by those influences in KP(Fata areas) and Balochistan.
Part of the issue is the “moral lines” where people are abducted en masse without understanding who is capable of being rehabilitated and who is not. A great example of using people’s fears and traditions against them is Brig Gen Bliss’s use of pigs blood and pigs skin to quell the idea of martyrdom within the local population. Use the same fears with the TTP because while their senior leadership will see through this their foot soldiers are dumb enough to be convinced that just getting killed and meeting this fate would make their martyr situation unholy.
Psyops is practically non existent - there arent any commando solos in the air broadcasting consistent anti TTP and anti BLA propaganda and instead handled all by word of mouth or corrupt civil servants.
This in turn requires tackling corruption because executing such programs is not doable if the grass roots system to execute it is corrupt as well. The military’s budget(which is now a hobsons choice) Will have to be reduced, convey a message plain and simple to India - send one airplane beyond the border and the nuclear weapons go alert 5 - public facilities for state functions reduced while white elephants like Pakistan International Airlines sold off.
Pakistan has more losses in ghost employees than anyone else but then I am dithering towards utopian ideals.
Long story short - this is a very complex mess that may or may not be beyond saving
I am sick and tired of hearing that education is the issue. Sorry for being blunt but that is incorrect. Its not an educational issue. Many many terrorist are well educated. Bin laden, Zawahiri, etc were more educated than you or I. Many foreign fighters are extremely educated. Many suicide bombers are very well educated.
It is not an educational issue. It is a religious and Islamic issue. Why is it that since the time of the prophet our first 4 caliphas were assasinated? A certain segment of the muslim population has always resorted to extremism. At that point it becomes our responsibility ti question things further than just simpleton excuses.
Islamic society today is more prone to violence, more prone to extremism and more prone to fraud/corruption. Is it because we can easily use Islam to make ourselves feel better as if we are washing away our sins? We must introspect at the messages that mullahs are teaching us and our children. Islam is a powerful belief held by weak petty men.
I am not saying that is the source, infact I might not even know the reason for so much extremism in muslim countries today, but excuses such as oh its lack of education lack of funds or colonialization just doesnt cut it at this point. There needs to be a large degree of interospection especially for Pakistani muslims. Example i can give is that pakistani sunnis will be most extreme sunnis and pakistani shias will be most extreme shias. Why do pakistanis always tend to lean towards extreme beliefs? Rather than moderate middle of the road path?