jaibi
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Honestly I've no idea what to do !
We can't really talk to them because we've got nothing to talk to them about ! They've got a grievance that goes 'because you entered the War On Terror - This is Payback for that' & a demand that goes 'we're going to bring our system here perforce & anyone who stands within our way is an enemy of God & needs to be butchered like a goat' !
Frankly I don't buy into their grievance because studying the 'effect' of their grievance does not correlate, in my opinion, with its stated 'causation' because, whereas I could be wrong, I have a feeling that the women, children, young & old alike that are blown up in our mosques, in our schools, in our hospitals, in our marketplaces & even in our funerals aren't the ones who got Pakistan's entry into the War On Terror nor are they the ones who're calling the Drone Strikes ! Furthermore the nexus between the LeJ & the TTP doesn't add up for me either because the Shias didn't do squat when it comes to entering the War On Terror so why include them in the equation ?
So if the targets are indiscriminate then the cause & effect just doesn't add up for me !
Which leaves us with their 'Demand' ! They want to enforce their Interpretation of Islam on the rest of us whether someone agrees with them or not & if they 'do not' agree with them then the TTP will do to them what we do to an unsuspecting goat every Eid !
I don't know if there is any indication towards the TTP coming down from its Maximilist Position & if they don't can we possible agree to that demand ? Haven't we seen its results in Swat & elsewhere ?
Which leaves you with the option of fighting them !
As I said earlier, in my opinion, you need credibility, capacity & deterrence for that ! We don't have any of those three !
None of our State Security Institutions, Civilian Executive, Bureaucracy, Judiciary & the Media have 'credibility enough' in the eyes of the common man to be heard & believed so that the TTP narrative & those of their sympathizers isn't heard & believed by the gullible masses that we have !
Barring the Army no other Security Apparatus in Pakistan has the Capacity of fighting them & perhaps not even the Army because whereas conventional & non conventional might be a differential of a mere 3 letters in the English Language - On ground theres probably a world of difference ! I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the Army had to practically reinvent itself in a myriad ways to fight this War ! What to say of the Police & the Levies ?
Which leaves us with Deterrence ! Until recently we didn't even have laws to deal with this & deterrence, I think, depends upon both capacity & credibility & when the both of them are in short supply - Wheres the deterrence ?
So I dunno whats the way out of this War ! I don't think the Talks are going to achieve anything but I'm not much too optimistic about Fighting them either !
Maybe Pukhtoons like @Hyperion @chauvunist @TaimiKhan @Spring Onion - who can understand the dynamics of the Tribal Areas better than anyone of us - can lend some insight into something that we're missing out....that something that would be able to take initiative back from the TTP & save our Pukhtoon Belt & by extension - Pakistan, from terrible loss of innocent life & limb !
I don't know whether its through some Jirgas, through the Levies, through the Tribal Lashkars, through the Army's continued presence or through something else would we be able to solve this problem !
If you ask me - What to do ? I'm simply at a loss for words because I dunno what to do !
Our enemies within & without are brilliant in that they've entangled us in a conundrum that I don't see us getting out of for a long...long time !
' @Secur @Mamba @Hyperion @Marshmallow @Aeronaut @Icarus @Xeric @Irfan Baloch @balixd @Developereo @Oscar
And that is exactly why we need to talk to ourselves, the common folk about this issue so we put everything on the table and make a consented decision.
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