All-Green
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The support to the lashkars should never have been stopped. They were acting as good front runners for their respective troubled areas. I am guessing some bad apples within the lashkars made it impossible to keep the flow of information and weapons to them...
Actually the brutal mass murders of Jirgas, Tribal Elders, Tribal Maliks etc. by the TTP ensured that Lashkars were weakened.
Thousands of such influential people have been killed by TTP so far, i think the figure is around 3000-4000.
The situation spiraled out of control due to lack of key pillars on which resistance was to be based!
TTP is much more brutal than the Lashkars, FC and Army who always want to save lives of civilians and have to show restraint and bear responsibility and anger in case of collateral!
On the other hand the monster of TTP used IEDs, individual assassinations, devastating suicide bombings to destroy everyone who opposed them and created enough fear to stop the average man from opposing them or even giving out information.
The TTP has enormous funding because it has bribed many outlaws into joining its cause...these outlaws helped TTP in targeting all their opponents.
Many influential families were either killed or are practically hijacked by the TTP with threats to life and property.
This has happened in all areas where TTP gained control, the influential people who can rally the masses were individually targeted via bombings or assassinations, many were killed as US agents or outlaws (what a sad joke considering what TTP are...)
The entire network of TTP has to be dismembered and sadly that is not in the capacity of Lashkars, they are best suited for counter insurgency support in their respective areas under supervision of Army, FC and the state leadership.
Once we regain control via Army action and break the strength of TTP then the Lashkars will be much more useful...an excellent plan needs to be in place to protect the Jirgas and the tribal leadership which has been brutally targeted by TTP.
A united action is the most critical thing but Army and FC have to come first due to the enormity of the threat!