Adil Najam
This photograph was published in Daily Times, January 12, 2009. The caption read:
“Women are not allowed in the market,” reads a banner displayed at the entrance of a market in Mingora. Taliban have banned the entry of women in markets and ordered the killing of women who violate the ban. Most shop owners have sold or shut down their businesses because of falling sales following the restriction.
What would have made this tragic depiction comical had the context been different is that from the picture this is clearly a textile and cloth market – the type of market where, in Pakistan, you would expect most customers to be women!
How could ,sustained and effective military operations, like the one being conducted in Bajaur will work. Is it fair to bomb innocnet people, and diplace them in thier own contry. Who do you think they will side with, the Government , who is doing this millatary operation or the US who is bombing them , where as the millnatant are giving them 50 laks for one suicidal bomb, naturally they would go with the millitans, casue they see they are dying anyways , alteast they will have money for thier family. I think your harbouring more talibans, this is not the answer for God sake!!!!!!!
I am shocked and speechless after looking at this picture. Never in my widest nightmares did I ever think that the mentality of some people in Pkaistan would come to this….
After all, isn’t Islam a religion of equality and not “Suppression of Women”???
Patah naheen kis ki nazar lag gaye hamaree janat ko.
I couldn’t disagree more Aamir. They may have been eliminated from Bajaur, but they popped back up in three more places. And yes they are still humans (despite evidence to the contrary), and there are root causes that need to be dealt with here. If those are not dealt with, another genaration will soon be ready to take their place after a short period of peace. There are some fundamental wrongs that need to be corrected. Until then organizations like the Taliban will keep regenerating themselves.
On the contrary Faraz, the last eight years have shown that only sustained and effective military operations, like the one being conducted in Bajaur will work. Pakistanis need to ditch the fantasy that these militants are still humans and can be “negotiated” or peacefully resolved with.