Following 2 photos are the scenes of 2 more cowardly attacks by the enemies of Pakistan in my Lahore and my Peshawar. Very sad and our prayers go to the innocents who got martyred. If anything, these cowardly acts are going to make our resolve stronger against the terrorists. Dawn coverage here and here.
Photo Credits: Dawn and M. Ramzan
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Pakistanis (the lower and middle classes) need to usher in a political revolution that overhauls the current one. Seems like 165 million people are being held hostage by 5 million (or less) feudals/feudal progeny and faujis. Make no mistake – if the majority of Pakistanis don’t organize and rise up to take back the country, the “spoils” will be distributed between the current looters and the mad men running these killing schemes. People power – in the millions – on the streets demanding an explanation and an end to this violence will focus the bozos in government and the military like nothing else. Do it for your sakes – do it for your children’s sakes. The time to look for answers to the government and the military is past.
@KC Kumar and subhay….thanks for your kind words.
Back to topic, the operation in South Waziristan was planned and prepared for months before it was launched. The planning and preparation necessarily takes time but Asif Zardari’s foolish declaration some months ago that the operation would happen had alerted the enemy, which also put its own plan into action.
The Taliban’s plan seems to have been to escape to Orakzai, Khyber and Kurram tribal agencies and re-double their bombing efforts in the cities. So the army’s effort should be to continue the operation in South Waziristan, but it needs to chase the Taliban into the tribal agencies they have escaped to as well. In counter-insurgency one has to be agile and months of preparation to enter Kurram, Khyber and Orakzai are simply not available.
As far as bombing campaign in cities go, the police and intelligence agenices including vaunted ISI has proven itself to be useless in last many years at stopping terrorism, so those attacks are going to continue until the factories and leadership in FATA is eliminated.
As an Indian I can only say that I hope Pakistan becomes stable soon. Since I am mostly interested in the growth and stability of my own country – I know that without stable neighbors progress of your country own will never be possible. AT least Bangladesh has been become stable and peaceful.
Unfortunately I feel that the ‘people’ of Pakistan have increasingly become irrelevant to the Pakistani Army which supported the Taliban and even now don’t want to go after that fully . For this organization they would rather destroy themselves , their own people rather than let go of their own paranoia about India.
As they say, a picture speaks louder than a thousand words.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45829000/jpg /_45829348_007393458-1.jpg
What harm could this child have possibly caused to anybody? The pain, the fear in this child’s eyes makes one wonder how the killers can be brainwashed to such an extent that there is no humanity left in them. I despair.
K.S. Kumar,
I thank you for your thoughts and just so that you know we are also not blind to the fact that there are sane and peace loving people on the other side of the border as well, and by the same token, just like our own cranks you have the same there as well, and the hateful comments hurt somewhat but we take them in stride now.
Your nice comments at this time are welcome nevertheless.