I am against bombing campaign. TTP and sectarian killers are Pakistanis and indistinguishable from ordinary citizens. After South Waziristan action, Mahsud Taliban killers shifted to Karachi. As a result, we found TPP gunmen sitting on Kati pahaari and shooting trouser wearing street walkers (Pathans wear mostly Shalwar) in war against MQM. Similarly, supporters of Sufi Mohammed ran way after military action in Swat to comeback after situation improved in their favour.
Militancy poison was injected into Pakistan society during Afghan war with the help of the bigots Zia ul Haq (hope he is rotting in hell) and his side kick Hamid Gul. This cancer has been nourished by the Madrasahs operated by Tariq Azam of SSP and supported by political leaders such as Munawwar Hassan of JI, Hafiz Said of Jamaat Dawa. Also partially by likes of Fazlur Rahman of JUI and Allama Binori. Sad to admit that even main stream politicians such as Rana Sana ullah and Imran Khan have succumbed to charm of militancy, probably to woo the TTP sympathizers vote.
First and foremost should be a sustained campaign to change hearts and minds of the TTP sympathizers. For this we need to invite get back progressive Islamic Scholars such as Jawed Ghamdi back into Pakistan. Jawed Ghamdi along with Tahirul Qadri should be given time on the TV Channels where they can denounce the incorrect interpretations such as instance of Hazrat Khizr (AS) use in Malala case and convince Pakistani that TTP interpretation of Sharia and Islam
is totally wrong.
TTP sympathizers of the media should be shunned. This should be in combination with close scrutnity of syllabus and funding of all the madrasahs in Pakistan without exception. If you to run a school in Pakistan, the State has a right to know what you are teaching.
Next item should be targeting of the people who provide support to the militants. 99% of the people arrested by the police and the agencies are set free by the courts. One can understand that when TTP butchers wont even leave innocent girls such as Malala, all possible eye witnesses of the bombings will be too scared to come forward.
Human right lawyers may not like it, but we need to enact laws which allow detention without trial for unlimited period. Similar to US Guantanamo Bay prison and any one proven to be helping militants in any way whatsoever to be treated exactly the same way. It may be a bit drastic but we are in the middle of war of survival.
Our foreign policy also needs to change. Whether good or bad Taliban; Pakistani territory must not be used as a safe haven for those who attack our neighbours. Once we can conclusively prove that Pakistan is not providing direct or indirect support to the freedom fighters that attack ISAF forces and hide away in North Waziristan: there would be no pretext for drone attacks and Pakistan would be able to take the matter up in the Security Council. If US still persists, international opinion would be against her and TTP supporters wont be able to claim the drone attacks are with the connivance of GOP.
What I propose is easier said than done. There would be hue and cry from the militant supporting section of the society as well as sectarian Deobandi parties. I am already 69, thus most of my generation will die off soon this it matters little. But what about our childrens children and generations after that? Do we want to leave a hell hole for our furture generations?
However, do we have statesmen who dare to take tough measures to make Pakistan safe for ordinary citizens? Or are we have become such hypocrites that we dare not name Taliban as perpetrators of attack on Malala, either out of fear or out love of Taliban cause? PPP Gov't is certainly incapable of performing this task.