PAKISTAN v/s TALIBAN

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban is a piece of larger Taliban organization, affiliated with al-Qaeda, spread over Central Asia to Far East and East Africa. The Pakistan Government talks of negotiation with Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban, started with all parties’ conference. It was first sign of government’s laying its arms before Taliban. Since then the clamour of negotiations from Pak. Government side have been renting in the midst of Taliban’s atrocities and killings with only lukewarm response to government’s invitations of negotiations.  The trend from both sides already shows where the wind is blowing. Any armed action from Pakistan forces does not seem to make any difference. I think the state government knows it; that’s why govt. is already going with military actions without any such announcements.

 PTT have plenty of hideouts within Pakistan and outside Pakistan. The USA exit from Afghanistan will provide a wider opportunity to achieve Taliban’s lost regime. Here in Pakistan they are mingled with locals like sugar and salt in water from Peshawar to Karachi. Moreover, they have friends inside the country, the many fundamentalist parties throughout Pakistan, who are members of Pakistan parliament as well as those disbanded by the government.  They are now blood-cell in the body of Pakistan.  The two big brothers, the USA and Russia could not overcome them. This many-headed creature has no physical body to crush them; no central place to capture them. Pakistan is now victim of its own venomous snake.

ISRAR HASAN

FEB. 22, 2014