Comments on: Hakimullah Mehsud : Deadlier Than Baitullah Mehsud

By: Fauzan Sohail

Fauzan Sohail — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:00:49 +0000

It’s about time we quit clawing at the past every time we have to talk about how Taliban came in to being. Those who created them, harvested them, trained them and sheltered them are long gone. So are the ones they trained! The new generation of Taliban IS NOT what it’s predecessors were so don’t confuse the two and use ‘who started it’ as the age old excuse to defend what they do!

Whether aided by external forces or operating with their own free will - these people are enemies of the state. They deserve being bombed, arrested, tortured, interrogated and eventually executed! No one is born a killer but it is not always their nature or circumstances that lead them to become one. It is also the greed for power, authority and a disturbed/brainwashed mindset that attributed to their state.

This WAR is not a conventional war. It is NOT pitching brothers against brothers as some people might think. No enemy of Pakistan or one who kills Pakistanis and that too on Pakistani soil is a brother of ours - religions, state, or otherwise. This war needs to fought in long, painful, and slow series of victories by the Army followed by immediate relief, de-talibanization, social reforms, education, jobs and provisions of basic necessities by the governmen. If the war torn regions are not compensated in the aftermath, we will never see the end of terrorism because one thing that Taliban exploit more than any thing else is a poor man’s realization of how poor and ignored he really is by the very country he is a citizen of.

It is as simple and as complicated as that !!

The Pakistan Army is doing what they are trained to do to defend every inch of our motherland. If any one needs to wake up and sort their act out, it is our ‘oh so democratic government’. Social uplift and favorable economic policies to raise standards of living are for the government to do!

By: Gul Raiz

Gul Raiz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:43:32 +0000

Terrorists must not be spared. Period.

By: johann

johann — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:21:49 +0000

You required American drones to kill baitullah Mehsud. Hakeemullah is deadlier. so you require american drones. You require American dollars but your Army will want only the dollars but not do as the pay master says.So Kerry lugar posturing.But Americans are pursuing their agenda.

By: nazia

nazia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:04:22 +0000

@5 who taught them this language?
why not their instructors should be first punished who trained them like.
No one is born killer or prostitute it is their trainer and their circumstances that produce such negative character in a ignorant society.

By: FAKIR

FAKIR — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:42:31 +0000

The Taliban Murderers shuld not be spared, They shuld be eliminated,They do have a Human face, but they shuld not be spared. They shuld be talked in the same language which they talk with others,

By: Asad Ghauri

Asad Ghauri — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:48:40 +0000

“We have to strike in South Waziristan, and do the carpet bombing”
why not a carpet bombing on corrupt government officers?
why not carpet bombing on corrupt police system?
why not carptet bombing on politician main cause of social injunstice?
If govt. will not end social injustice we will see much more disturbance in future.

U r simply demanding an increase in followers of TTP by carpet bombing on south waziristan, pls stop being a socialist minded!

By: nazia

nazia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:25:52 +0000

Gen gul riaz from where you had completed your war course to handle tribal belts insurgency with such mighty ways.
Your ideal leader should be sadam hussain who also adopted same techniques to eradicate his invisible enemies by simply using a chemical gas or surely gen kiyani who left no forceful war actions except nuclear missile technology for handling handful of insurgents by displacing millions and then watched this disaster through the flight of F16.By using this supersonic flight he would have been thoroughly viewed the destruction and miseries of locals.

By: Maria Sultan

Maria Sultan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:44:40 +0000

Generalization of Mehsud tribe as terrorists is very unjustified and you are basically calling for a genocide of innocent people who are as miserable as we are, but more than the people in Islamabad who have got at least some life to live.

You need to read about Taliban and more about their history and composition. You will be surprised to know that a huge number of Taliban belong to foreign countries and also from South Punjab, interior Sindh.

By: Dr. Zamir

Dr. Zamir — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:40:06 +0000

Amazingly, you didn’t praise Mush this time !!!