Are Taliban Returning?
By Maria Sultan • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics • 6 CommentsWith the recent horrendously terrible Lahore Suicide attack, the attention of the people has once again reverted to the wearingly familiar pattern of terrorism. After months of uneasy silence, a terrorist struck and killed humans and once again sent a very bad image of the Pakistan across the globe.
Things still remain undefined and potentially unstable. Terrorists are on the loose. The lull in the suicide attacks made the hapless and people think that perhaps it was an end to their miseries, but they were terribly wrong. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the banner under which every specie of terrorists operate now has struck again.
The March 8 suicide bombing in Lahore’s Model Town is believed to have been carried out by the Punjab chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to avenge the killing of Commander Qari Zafar, the acting Amir of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) in a US drone strike in North Waziristan on February 24, 2010.
So should we brace for another bloody string of terrorist attacks or would authorities do something proactively?
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The intensity with the forces have won Bajour I think the spinal of the Taliban has broken. I highly doubt it would be an easy comeback for the Taliban. And Pakistan cannot affoard their comeback as well. The thousands of lives they have taken away!! How can we ever let them come back!
Most probably the last shots of Taliban one can think of. The blast in Lahore was more of an angry reaction. One realizes that in the past 6 months many of their major battlefield men have been arrested which is a very good achievement by the Pak military so praise to them.
This may just be the last gas in the tank for these demented terrorists. Taliban have been defeated in Waziristan and with all the high-profile arrests recently, we should expect an end to this soon I hope. But yes they will react but it might just prove to be the last arrows in their arsenal.
Dear Maria,
Do you really think the authorities can do something?
Terroists are not an organization to attack or shutdown. Terrorism is an idealogy. And the fact is, due to Gen. Zia’s Islamic centric policies, generations of Pakistanis who studied in Madrasas are indoctrinated.
Terrorists are like religious racists - for them, their religion is supreme, their laws, unbreakable, their ways of living, the best. Did we all not see the Taliban shutdown music shops, kill people listening to music, stop women from shopping in malls and dress up the way they wanted? And it all happened not in faraway Afghanistan, it happened in Pakistan!
It is a shame that a country (Pak) that had the potential to become a great state has fallen this low. I can only pray (Oh, that is if the fundamental muslims allow me to pray to my God!!!) that Pak rises from the Ashes to throw away Islamization and adopts inclusive democracy!
I cannot understand what can the authorities do proactively to avoid such incidents? They have been able to curtail the strings of attacks. The recent crackdown of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda has affected their command structure while a complete end to this war may not be imminent we are surely on the winning side. The state however needs to ensure that such facilities are kept out of residential areas and these facilities should have logistical arrangements to counter such suicide attacks
Taliban are done in Pakistan. This is not even the last stand and I hope that the rest will be managed by the police forces especially in Punjab. However their nuisance will remain for a while to deal with but they are just dirty criminals and under the disguise of religion they survived for so long.
These Khawarij must be eliminated as ordered by the prophet where ever they appear under what ever name they surface. I wish the rulers just produce the courage to just kill a few of them so exemplary that it serves as a deterrent, like burning them publicly, or something of such sort.