Pakistani Abambassador or Mullah Mansoor Dadullah ?
By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look • (1,015 views) • 4 CommentsThe announcement of a cease-fire just a few weeks into a rigorous military operation against one of Pakistan’s most wanted men Baitullah Mehsud, by the Baitullah Mehsud was largely seen as the lull in suicide attacks and bomb blasts in Pakistan, but with Charsadda suicide attack and the recent abduction of Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin in Khyber tribal region’s Jamrud sub-district clearly shows how unreliable these ruthless terrorists are.
Security forces captured an important Taliban commander, Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, along with five other Taliban after a gunbattle near the Afghan border in Gowal Ismailzai village of Balochistan’s Qila Saifullah district. Baitullah Mehsud is being cornered by the security forces pretty much rapidly and his supply lines have been cutoff from three sides, and with these flimsy and deceiving announcements of cease fire he just wants to get some room and time to regroup his diminishing power.
The abduction of Pakistan’s ambassador and the arrest of Mullah Mansoor Dadullah are interlinked and as the political administration of Waziristan is negotiating with local Talibans through tribal jirga, the Talibans are demanding the release of Mullah Mansoor. These Talibans are working in sync with the Talibans of Afghanistan, who want to get Mullah Mansoor released from Pakistani custody.
The options are tough for Pakistani authorities, as United States and NATO are mounting their pressure on Pakistan to hand over Mullah Mansoor to them, and on the other side the life of Pakistani Ambassador is in danger along with his one guard and driver.
Pakistanis should rush to investigate from Mullah Mansoor as quickly as possible, and he could prove a great help to locate other suicide bombers and their hideouts. Whereas they should try to negotiate ransom for Pakistani ambassador, and also try to look into a commando operation, and they should also ask themselves as why in the hell the ambassador was dumb enough to travel by road in that area?
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February 13th, 2008
Ghazala;
Excellent article.
I was wondering how long it would take for peace to besabotaged. A week ago when we heard that a peace agreement had been signed, I wrote “how long before a drone sabotages this agreement too”.
I suspect the drone has arrived.
In other developments, Ch Pervez Ilahi is working fevereshly with Maulana Fazlur Rehman and others to get Maulvi Aziz released.WIthdrawl of the army, and release of Aziz was key demand of the suicide bombers.
PS: I notice that many bloggers simply cut and past the stories from newspapers…this clutters up the Spectator and reduces its value to the bloggers who work hard to create new content.
Moin
February 13th, 2008
Many bloggers cut and paste, do you mean at TPS? Sorry I dont think so. Sometimes they do (but very occasionally) copy the news (I repeat only news) from other sites and give the source for it. Otherwise you would find 99% content on TPS purely original.
take care.
February 13th, 2008
I don’t think there is any copy, paste is here at TPS. Because you will not see any news flash here rather a deep thoughtful content.
Regards
February 14th, 2008
I think the author of this article is taking a very one sided approach. It sounds to me more like a Fox Report rather then something i expected from TPS. This rise in bias is obscuring our ability to be just in our analysis of the events. We also dont support anyone who tries to harm our country and will always work for its intersts but then we should also not forget that presenting just one sided picture of Waziristan crises and the Pakistani Taliban dilemma will only result in pro longing of civil war (yes i do call it civil war sometimes and not war on terror).
I have always been telling the people from other provinces that the War in Waziristan is less of a Jihad and more of a War of Revenge, which tribals have always fought wel and fought it to their last drop of blood and history is our witness to it. Even the government sources confirmed my this claim by presenting the statements of the suspected assasins of Benazir Bhutto. One of prime suspect took the step in revenge for the killing of his brother in the famous Lal Masjid episode. A relative of mine and a resident of the famous Mirali town narrated to me a story in which approximately 100 Muslims belonging to both Army and Tribals got killed just because of misunderstanding between them. If you have ever closely studied the mentality of tribal people, you will agree with me that they truly follow the notion that revenge is best served when cold so no matter what happens, they will not forget this for decades and will keep targeting those who committed these acts.
Lastly, you said that Baithullah Masud was cornered in the recent fight and gave a look as if he begged for negotiations, i just wonder if the army was so close to killing him and destroying his network, what was the motivation for it to agree to his peace deals? It just mean either we have a collections of fools sitting at the top of army who can’t even understand such a simple logic or is it that the army was itself looking for a graceful wayout of the crises with mounting casualities everyday. I am sure anyone who has been to these tribal areas will ask a question about the rational of using the Tanks in the mountaineous areas of South Waziristan? This shows the desperation of army and the level of resistance it is facing.
Also note that we have used all available options with us and fought with tanks, gunships, our airforce but we are still unable to defeat them so it do sounds to me that either we have been wasting billions of dollars on our army or is it that we are fighting ourselves and the defeat will only result in an even more disfigured and smaller Pakistan with only one or two provinces left?
At the end, i would again repeat that i dont hate our army and my patriotism shouldnt be doubted but i don’t agree on the means used to reach our goals and the rhetoric that people are using these days.
This type of rhetoric should be saved for our enemies and not for the members of our family, our tribal brothers, in case we believe in peace and in keeping our country together in one peace. All is said in good faith.