Is there really terrorism in Pakistan?

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Is there really terrorism in Pakistan? People who have been on the ground suggest otherwise. I don’t trust any country’s media. I trust word-of-mouth information. People on chatting and discussion forums say that the life is going on peacefully like normal times.

The perception about terrorism may be Pakistani media’s ploy to extract money from USA on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

 

[Tipu7]

Is there really terrorism in Pakistan? People who have been on the ground suggest otherwise. I don’t trust any country’s media. I trust word-of-mouth information. People on chatting and discussion forums say that the life is going on peacefully like normal times.

The perception about terrorism may be Pakistani media’s ploy to extract money from USA on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

I am Pakistani, born here, lived here, studied here..............
Never heard a explosion. Never seen target killing............ Media indeed is biased on both sides. Situation of Peace is much much better in Pakistan now, particularly in past 6 months..............

 

[RazorMC]

Is there really terrorism in Pakistan? People who have been on the ground suggest otherwise. I don’t trust any country’s media. I trust word-of-mouth information. People on chatting and discussion forums say that the life is going on peacefully like normal times.

The perception about terrorism may be Pakistani media’s ploy to extract money from USA on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

You misunderstood the time-frame.

Terrorism from anti-Pakistan elements is a threat, but the brilliant success of recent military operations has made life easy for Pakistanis.

It is only after the operations that security situation has improved.

The last line is laughable, to say the least. Ask those who lost their lives in this war.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Is there really terrorism in Pakistan? People who have been on the ground suggest otherwise. I don’t trust any country’s media. I trust word-of-mouth information. People on chatting and discussion forums say that the life is going on peacefully like normal times.

The perception about terrorism may be Pakistani media’s ploy to extract money from USA on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

Terrorism is dying in Pakistan, Once Zarb e Azb is completed we'll fortify the Afghan border and keep em out.

 

[Menace2Society]

TTP are a foreign funded insurgency with foreign fighters. Any fighters who are supposedly Pakistani have CNICs purchased with a bribe at NADRA.

Terrorism and insurgency is alien to Pakistani society, we are better than this and we have showed we are.

Now that PA has got a handle on how to control and dismantle this Afghan led insurgency its dieing. Only last remaining valley in FATA and Karachi is left before an era of blissful peace will be ushered in.

 

[JonAsad]

Terrorism is dying in Pakistan, Once Zarb e Azb is completed we'll fortify the Afghan border and keep em out.

Experiences learned from Zarb e Azab will be used against india when we liberate Kashmir -

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

I am Pakistani, born here, lived here, studied here..............
Never heard a explosion. Never seen target killing............ Media indeed is biased on both sides.

@RazorMC @Talwar e Pakistan @Menace2Society @JonAsad

Can you tell about direct experience like this quoted member has done?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed bomb explosion?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed shooting by gun?

Few years back Pakistan's firangi cricket coach was saying that he felt safe.

Here in India we have Naxalite problem. And my classmate revealed that his dad was kidnapped in 1990s. It turned out that some of their neighbours were in that gang of Naxals. It means Naxalism is for real.

 

[Jango]

@RazorMC @Talwar e Pakistan @Menace2Society @JonAsad

Can you tell about direct experience like this quoted member has done?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed bomb explosion?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed shooting by gun?

No.

No.

Haven't really felt endangered at any time as well...

I remember a guy in the Gulf asking me, "Oh, you're from pakistan, how is it? No bombing or killing now? Safe?"

And I was like WTF dude...then I explained to him, majorty of the violence is in select areas, not the majority of the country.

And now, even those select areas have become even more select.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

No.

No.

Haven't really felt endangered at any time as well...

I remember a guy in the Gulf asking me, "Oh, you're from pakistan, how is it? No bombing or killing now? Safe?"

And I was like WTF dude...then I explained to him, majorty of the violence is in select areas, not the majority of the country.

And now, even those select areas have become even more select.

Phir tou Pakistan se jyaada problem India mein hai!

 

[M.SAAD]

In some parts like FATA, Quetta etc. rest is fine .

@RazorMC @Talwar e Pakistan @Menace2Society @JonAsad

Can you tell about direct experience like this quoted member has done? NO.

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed bomb explosion? NO.

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed shooting by gun? NO.

Few years back Pakistan's firangi cricket coach was saying that he felt safe. YES.

Here in India we have Naxalite problem. And my classmate revealed that his dad was kidnapped in 1990s. It turned out that some of their neighbours were in that gang of Naxals. It means Naxalism is for real.

Terrorism is present, but its restricted to some peculiar areas only, its not like people in Pakistan have seen explosions or suicide bombing, chances of one dying in a road accident are 100000 times higher than dying in suicide attacks.


I don't know situation in Afghanistan,Syria,Iraq etc. tho, but in Pakistan I've never witnessed anything abnormal , not even a small scale robbery with my own eyes.

The Islamabad Mariott Hotel Blast was horrific tho,Although I live several miles away from the Redzone , I still remember the glass of my Windows vibrated like hell when it occurred,I thought its some sort of Earth Quake or something at first, but then I turned on TV and the news started coming of the Blast in Islamabad, it was Shocking .


That was the closest I've been to a Bomb Blast and that too several miles away.. Still it was Horrific .

 

[TankMan]

@RazorMC @Talwar e Pakistan @Menace2Society @JonAsad

Can you tell about direct experience like this quoted member has done?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed bomb explosion?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed shooting by gun?

Few years back Pakistan's firangi cricket coach was saying that he felt safe.

Here in India we have Naxalite problem. And my classmate revealed that his dad was kidnapped in 1990s. It turned out that some of their neighbours were in that gang of Naxals. It means Naxalism is for real.

I've witnessed an attack+explosion, from afar - heard gunfire, saw smoke from the explosion - terrorism was at its peak in 2009-2010, in Lahore at least. Nothing except for that one and a robbery which counts as crime, not terrorism.

None of the incidents reported by the media are fabricated - the frequency might seem exaggerated because good news or mundane everyday life doesn't make headlines. Terrorism, on the other hand, does make headlines.

As for a plot to take money from the US, what a bloody joke. The US would give aid to whoever it wants to if it thinks it can serve its interests - terrorism or no terrorism. Pakistan is located next to Afghanistan and that gave the US enough incentive to give aid when it started its Afghanistan misadventures in the 80s.

 

[Menace2Society]

@RazorMC @Talwar e Pakistan @Menace2Society @JonAsad

Can you tell about direct experience like this quoted member has done?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed bomb explosion?

Have you or your friends/relatives personally witnessed shooting by gun?

Few years back Pakistan's firangi cricket coach was saying that he felt safe.

Here in India we have Naxalite problem. And my classmate revealed that his dad was kidnapped in 1990s. It turned out that some of their neighbours were in that gang of Naxals. It means Naxalism is for real.

Myself or anyone else I know have never witnessed any of those.

Since Zarb b azb operation launch month by month society is normalizing. Another 12 months and country will be at total peace.

Karachi is a big problem for Pakistan right now which will take a lot of solving in the next 6 months.

 

[544_delta]

Is there really terrorism in Pakistan? People who have been on the ground suggest otherwise. I don’t trust any country’s media. I trust word-of-mouth information. People on chatting and discussion forums say that the life is going on peacefully like normal times.

The perception about terrorism may be Pakistani media’s ploy to extract money from USA on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

It has subsided considerably since Zarb-e-Azb.(If i were to give a %age i'd say 90% of it has been eradicated). But it'd be ridiculous to assume that there never was,we have suffered the most at its hands more than any country.
P.S: Please remove the last lines as they are an insult to those who lost their lives.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Few years back Pakistan's firangi cricket coach was saying that he felt safe.

It was Geoff Lawson. He was making such statements when practically every team was refusing to tour Pakistan.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

You misunderstood the time-frame.

Terrorism from anti-Pakistan elements is a threat, but the brilliant success of recent military operations has made life easy for Pakistanis.

It is only after the operations that security situation has improved.

The last line is laughable, to say the least. Ask those who lost their lives in this war.

Long long before (1 or 2 or 3 years before) this operation, some civilian in NWFP was saying, "Neither militants nor military personnels are dying. Only civilians are suffering (Not due to violence but due to forced relocation from one place to another)."

And someone was commenting on internet, "Media doesn't tell truth. Swat valley consists of delicious food and jaw-droppingly beautiful women. I had been there."