Why not kill him in encounter like we did in Mumbai in Nineties . Problem solved .
There is a difference here, what happened in Bombay was neither an ideology opposed to the idea of the way India is fabricated, nor was there a mass support for the goons, on the contrary Taliban is exactly that, just as the Maoists are in our case, though even in case of the Maoists there are lingering differences.
India and Pakistan are two contrasting examples, where being on the religious right is deep in the hearts of Pakistanis, for the Indians being on the center to left comes more naturally, even our rightists have a prevalent left in them, nothing of the sort exists in Pakistan, as a matter of fact being on the left is seen suspiciously there. The religious right creates an orthodox, a conservative, the center to left creates a perspective more liberal.
Pakistan is a deeply polarized society, the wedge are contrasting between the literates, and the illiterates, the better educated, and the not so well educated, the ones educated overseas, and ones educated in Pakistan, within religion they stand deeply divided, the rural flock and the urban dwellers, amongst the urban, the haves and havenots, the middle class is hardly existent, their ethnicity further divides them, the sense of being a Pakistani is largely amiss.
They see themselves as more muslim than as a Pakistani, and even there they stand confused on what sort of a muslim they are, or is the other one as good a muslim as this person himself is, in contrast, an Indian sees himself as more Indian than as a hindu, muslim, sikh, jain, tamil, himachali, gujarati or whatever. India, post-independence, thanks to the initial struggle between various ideologies which were adamant on taking over India, was able to successfully create a deep sense of being an Indian, Pakistan still struggles to do that, and if they try, they can’t leave aside religion of it, India never flirted with an idea of creating an identity based on religion, in case of Pakistan, take out religion, no matter how failed an idea that is, nothing gets left.
Because of that, a sensible liberal person like Imran Khan is forced to take up beliefs he otherwise always resisted all his life, and the country starts to love him for that. Difference is, when a Imran Khan speaks, the country stands divided and a decent chunk supports him, in fact he further polarizes the country, in India when a Arundhati Roa speaks, she stands isolated, and a she faces a united country, no political outfit in India divides the country on the issue of Maoists, in Pakistan, the Taliban issue is smack in the middle of politics, pukhtoons voted the PTI in because Imran always presented a face that was soft on the Taliban, no political party ever got a vote in India because they went soft on the Maoists. When India fights the Maoists, the country supports nor does the issue get politicised, when Pakistan even starts the talk of any such attack, the passions flair up, a big number resists it, politics centers around it, listen and read the urdu media, and one senses an under current of support for the Taliban, never like that ever existed in India.
