Mabs
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I had a talk with a close relative of shanzain about this..not sure if i should post the chat here? He said that this one particular man is crazy beyond limits and is hell bent on starting a massive intra-tribal blood feud. He should be in jail or mental hospital or anywhere else but not roaming around free with weapons.
These feudals derive their strength from the insecurities of the people.They have been shielding behind this cloak of insecurities of Baluchistan, and they are not wrong,we fu**ed up in Baluchistan big time. All is still not last though,we have to eradicate the very thing that gives them strength, poverty.Once that is done, they will have no choice but to either assimilate themselves with the rest of the masses or be buried in those mountains up there. But as long as the people are dependent on them for their three meals a day,the Sardars will be mightier than the pharaohs.
I would like to recount an incident here, which happened to an acquaintance who happens to be from the Marri tribe.He got selected for the CSS, but did not join. On my inquiry, he said that the sardar has told me not to join until he orders me to do so.I was baffled, and said to him that why are you even listening to him, to which he replied that he is the sole bread earner of the family, and if he joins without the consent of the Sardar, either his family will be killed or starved to death because the agriculture land that they live off, has been leased to them by the Sardar.
This incident really shows us that people are not up in the mountains by choice, they have been forced to.They see no other way out. When we are pushed against the wall , and there is no room left, we push back as hard as we are able. These people are simply pushing back after years and years of repression. Give them hope,show them an alternative instead of blindly killing them.
When a cause is just, people will find means to keep it going,. no matter what. Kashmir is a textbook example of that.The people who I have talked to, find it audacious that after what they have been through, instead of understanding and trying to solve their issues, we advocate to just kill them all. That strengthens their belief that the state of Pakistan is against them.
No matter how much animosity they harbor for us, deep down inside what the really expect of us is a sincere heartfelt apology, and then concrete steps to address their grievances.They have taken up arms as a symbolic gesture to show that they have had enough,they have done it to to kick us out of our slumber and arrogance,to stop us from making statements like "kill them all".I have talked to them ,and that is how the majority feels.This does not mean that there are no devil's advocates between them, there are people who are simply instigating and manipulating people for their own vested interests, but they can be handled easily using Imran Khan's formula for FATA. Draw out the people who have sided with the extremists due to our ill policies,promise them a better future and then deliver it.The hardcore extremists left behind should be allowed to chose between reconciliation or extermination,whatever makes them happy.