Adil Najam
Pakistan is in tears today. Yet again.
70+ people are dead in Wah today, as yet another cursed suicide bomber targets Pakistan and Pakistanis. The Tehrik-i-Taliban has taken responsibility for them. Only two days ago, 32 people were killed in a suicide attack on a hospital in the northern town of Dera Ismail Khan. Meanwhile incursions and attacks into Pakistani territory by American forces continue and fighting between militants and Pakistani forces rages in Bajur and other areas, killing even more.
In what continues to be war on and in Pakistan, Pakistanis continue to die. Pakistan continues to cry.
Some will call it the largest legacy of the Musharraf years. Some will read unstated messages within this murder and mayhem by these killers. Others will see it as the price in dead bodies that Pakistan pays in the War on Terror. Yet others will remind us that this is reaping what Gen. Zia-ul-haq sowed. There will be, I am sure, plenty more pontifications too – ranging from the absurd to the absurdly profound.
All I know is that today, yet again, Pakistanis die. Pakistan continues to cry.
Why must this murder and mayhem continue? I ask. When will it end? These, of course, are absurd questions themselves. Because we all know the answers. It will continue for as long as we let the killers kill and support their murders with our silence. Silence, of course, also kills. And some are condemned to cry silently.
These Taliban leaders are now openly threatening Pakistan and have declared war on the people of Pakistan. They are also at war with Islam. They are distorting Islam and making it something that it never was. These are remanants of the same people that never wanted Pakistan.
A war against Taliban, is a war FOR Pakistan and also a war FOR Islam.
True, Pakistanis dies and Pakistanis Cries!
Since Musharaf is out of picture, the fight should be against
the army on battle field, why they cant kill n fight in war and
attacking innocent people and taking their lives.
If Tehrik-i-Taliban has taken responsibility , they sure are not among pakistanis nor muslims who are killing pakistani in pakistan. As the fight should be against government on war ground. They cannot fight the battle nor protect their homes so they are crowdly targeting innocent people.
They must kill the person who started this war in pakistan before target any innocent muslim.
These suiciders are not pakistanis nor muslim, May Allah help us All to save our pakistan and our nation.
The answer to killing is not more killing. It is thinking also about why they are doing this and addressing the underlying reasons. f everyone kills everyone else, then no one remains at the end!
The tendency to deny the problem and blame it on outsiders not only does not solve teh problem, it worsens it because it distracts us from the real causes.
In recent days we have seen how Musharraf-supporters and Musharraf-opponents have been at each other’s throats. The lesson from today is that it is really these religious fanatics and fundamentalists who remain the true enemies of Pakistan and are out to destroy Pakistan. Whatever we think about Musharraf or about Zardari, against these murders we must remain united.
Pak Army should engage in target killimg of Taliban leadership and then negotiate with their supporters.
Indiscriminate bombing will not solve the problem and may actually worsen the situation.