Terrorism Looms Large
By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jul 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look • 5 CommentsTaliban are the residue of long and bloody Afghan wars, where all the major regional and world power fought like hell and polarization took its toll on the Afghan soil, and now the boogies of old times have come back to haunt the masters in extremely grim fashion.
Masters are stunned and shocked and at times look helpless as what to do to nab the terrorism. Everyone knows the origin and the perpetrators but everyone seems failed to do anything worthwhile and effective to curb the terrorism. After the Afghan war, nobody knew exactly what to do and there was no road map. The problems of Afghanistan started seeping and spilling over into Pakistan, and FATA proved to be the ideal place. 9/11 provided just the impetus needed.
Now Pakistan is rocking with terrorism and its army is fighting the war of survival. Its now us versus them. After defeating incompletely Taliban in the Malakand Agency, now the operation has moved on to the South Waziristan Agency, where henceforth shelling and aerial attacks have done little to dent the terrorism. While operating in the Waziristan, security forces must now show relaxation towards the Swat. The command and control system of the Swat TTP has been destroyed, but still the areas of Buner are very much fragile and brittle.
Whereas Pakistani cities are apprehensive as the threat of suicide bombings loom large. Suicide bombings which hitherto were a cultural anathema in Pakistan have now made the country into a veritable killing zone. Though scores of terrorists are being arrested on daily basis, we still are unable to stop their influx or to devise a foolproof strategy to nab the people who actually train and send them.
Pakistanis need assurances.
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terrorism is big curse. all terrooist come from fata tribal area
Sir,
I am happy you have accepted it is long haul. But does the Pakistani nation feel this war is a war for Pakistan and not one thrust on Pakistan by USA. Musharaff DID NOT undertake this action especially in FATA, North wazirstan. Why?
Does clearing SWAT alone is enough?Not one Taliban’s dead body is shown to the media of Pakistan. How can you claim TTP backbone is broken.
The shooting down of helicopter raises lot of questions
Johann:
The MI-16 helicopter crashed due to technical problems. Our Pakistan army has killed hundreds of Alqaeda/Taliban terrorists including foreign terrorists like Arabs, Uzbeks, Afghans. The Army doesn’t show dead bodies as a matter of its policy. However, our interior minister Mr. Malik has confirmed that a large number of foreigh terrorists have been killed and buried in mass graves
were are harvesting the crop of poison sown during proxy war against soviet red army. our govt was wrong then. shows how disastrous results emerge if policy making is given no real importance in matters of state
We should admit that we are harvesting fruit of policies of dictatorships starting from Zia’s regime to Musharraf. We our self promoted fanatics in Russian war and now they have become threat for our own country. It is in fact what comes around goes around. Many of us still refuse to accept that this not our war and we are fighting a proxy war but question arises here that if this is not our war then why extremists are killing our people? Why they are bombing mosques, schools and Govt buildings. Why they are threatening our country? In fact this is our war and the war of survival of Pakistan. We have no alternate except to flush out militants which are being funded by foreign elements.