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Suicide bomb hits Pakistan police near Hangu BBC NEWS | South Asia | Suicide bomb hits Pakistan police A suspected suicide bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in north-western Pakistan, killing at least five people, police say. Several police were among the dead in the attack near...

Talk about flogging a dead horse just for the depraved pleasure of it...

No Agnostic there's no conspiracy theory. Pakistan's handling of this problem is almost completely devoid of any manner of planning or grand strategy.

Fantastic. Nice open media trial for Kasab to make all manner of accusations, and for Indian officials to bumble and bluster along while utterly embarassing themselves in front of the world. Sometimes one feels that a nice quick execution via firing squad is needed for such people. This man...

Have you guys considered that perhaps its the Baloch Nationalists that are keeping the Taliban out of Balochistan? I think that is indeed the case. Considering that Pakistan is actively pursuing Baloch sardars as high value targets and doing nothing to counter the Taliban, how long will it...

S2, of course my assumption is that the PA will leave their barracks when push comes to shove. I think the PA will not hesitate to fight for its own survival. But if PA cannot find a way motivate its troops - then we are in big trouble. Will the peasants resist the Taliban? Perhaps in...

Well, if the Taliban can rebrand themselves as primarily a class struggle then it does hold some possibilities. But such movements take a long time to develop, and currently there's very little grassroots support for the Taliban in the Punjab. In NWFP/FATA small numbers of guerillas could...

Eyeless I do take your point, but my post was about sympathies and not fanaticism. Of course, the moderate Pakistanis are not fanatics, hence the name 'moderates', but if push comes to shove, will they take on the Taliban? I think it will be far more difficult for them to kill Taliban than...

Bezerk your logic is rather strange. A local party is supposed to handle local issues, and it is. Yet, you're branding them traitors for doing exactly what they ought to be doing. Maybe MQM would be true patriots if they supported Taliban in the interest of the unity of Pakistan.

The terrain in not suited to Guerilla warfare. You need to hold ground in these vast, populous plains. IMO, it will be much more difficult for Taliban to overthrow the state in Punjab province.

Tell me Eyeless, if it were Hindu or Sikh armies marching towards Islamabad, would these moderate Pakistanis have the same brotherly attitude? I know my post is rather stark, but given the context its quite accurate.

No offence guys, but IMO this thread should be in the Comedy section.

BBC Radio is generally very, very objective, even in tone. However, last night the newsreader said something on these lines "Pakistan has just received $5 billion in aid in order to fight terrorism, and shockingly, an extremist cleric was released from prison, who immediately went back to the...

^TS, the license to kill fellow muslims seems to increase with puritanism. If you're a moderate muslim, you can't kill anyone except non-muslims. If you're extremist musilm, you can kill every other sect of Islam as well. That's how it appears to work at the moment.

A lot of the areas which are marked as "under Taliban control" are not officially recognized as such by the GoP. If you consider full-fledged Sharia as Taliban control then yes only a couple of districts. But, if you consider the areas where the government writ effectlively no longer...

Geromix - great posts.

I don't get this plus minus system. It doesn't seem to increase your thanks or anything.

He's brilliant. He's like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones rolled onto one with a solid dose of bhang

this is india ! Delhi girl ( muslim ) in coma after school punishment dies Nice title. While you're at it, allege sexism, caste-prejudice (was she lower caste?), regionalism (was the teacher from bihar and she from MP?), blackmail (did she refuse to pay the teacher ransom?), terrorism (was...

Storm Lord, great post, really. It was a pleasure to read, and that's a rare thing to find among pages of half-baked opinions. All-Green, I don't think the answer is to control the media. It seems to me that there is a lot of hostility between the government and the media in Pakistan. Of...