Where are you going with this... please get in context.
I'm sorry but children of religious people were there too, and with your fatwa and underlying preaching of atheism is not effective enough for the world to convert.
Whereas, I trust dead terrorists will be properly tested, investigations will be carried out from all dimensions, no guess work as you propose... let's I pray to God... help us finding the master minds and defeating the culprits.
Regarding, Afghan Talibans... i believe they are history, and i (personally) don't value your link as I don't believe in those press releases being real deal, and as an argument, i refereed to various press releases being issued after Lahore attack, although i came across a fresh press release from so called Afghan Taliban, which was countering your link but i didn't quoted it....
Last but not least i don't give a dam.... if PAK army follows your hilarious logic, or you personally attack Afghanistan with world atheist army and start killing every Pashtoons you came across, under what ever pretext serve you best.
Ironically.. you were quick in judging the affiliations of terrorists but failed follow the reports, where kids was telling them speaking in Arabic and English... which certainly broaden the canvas far beyond Afghan border.
Actually everyone become suspicious of being idiot when he or she jump to conclusion without even discussing all dimensions, in proper manner.
My reason for bias against terrorists is more than apparent. You dont have to look for hidden meanings there. The presence of children of religious people, is no argument. The terrorists knew that these children were sons/daughters of army personnel and hence targeted them. According to them, the army of Pakistan is an infidel army. The motivation of the terrorists is still religious in nature, striving to impose true Islam in this country, this isn't a racial or political conflict. You saw the faces of the dead scumbags, I am sure, did they look foreign to you? Do those people look as if they have arrived from one of the usual suspect countries? This is a basic argument, but since the ISPR hasn't confirmed or denied anything until now, about the identity, that is the best I can give you, for now.
Them being history doesn't change the fact that they did similar things for which then they were commended by my countrymen, there are sources available to confirm this, the truth is very different from what Pakistanis believed, believe or would like to believe about them, nothing like "true Islam has arrived in Afghanistan" as I was constantly reminded by people around me. There were conflicting reports about the responsbility for the Lahore attack, but TTP has carried out such attacks in the past, with much more severity. So, the best guess was that someone was looking to jump on the bandwagon and claim some publicity. The Afghan Taliban despite the differences, have clinged onto TTP citing the "Muslim part" and never once before this one, has any attack of TTP condemned or the death of any of their leaders celebrated with the Pakistanis. This assumption of friendship with the evil is then pure delusion. I believe that the current condemnation is just made, to grab any sympathy or attention following the nation, because the people are shocked right now and looking for answers. Mere condemnation doesn't absolve them of what they did in that country, during their rule.
You give a damn enough to quote me persistently. Why shy away now? I haven't pointed this as being a Pushtoon problem, just the tribalism and tribal code, I dont really know what you have been getting from my posts. Haven't you read my posts telling people to worry about their own country and look beyond when its taken care of? The affiliation of terrorists has been long known, there was no guesswork involved there by any chance. Remember, that the ISPR hasn't once pointed a finger to any foreign country except Afghanistan, this blame-denial game is, as such, is a creation of the mind's defense mechanism and not something supported officially by the state of Pakistan.
P.S I heard about them talking in Arabic on ARY and a couple other channels, I missed the English part somehow. Would you mind giving me the source for it? Same goes for all the Mehsud trips's, tattos and vodkas being found and nobody knowing and telling about it. For most people here, considering "every dimension" or how that fancy word goes, is simply getting defensive, start defending religion, go into denial mode and chant America, India and Israel. Nothing seems to be much different here.
Fact is that Islamic knowledge is not prevalent in Pakistan. People don't try to understand the message of Holy Quran and even bother paying proper attention to hadith. True Islamic scholars are in shortage. Many people are Muslims only in name, not in practice. Pakistani governments don't bother promoting Islamic values and teachings either.
Which foreign influence? Indian, American, Iranian Shia'ism, to name a few. Want more examples?
How many terrorists attacks were being carried out in the 60's and 70's when we used to be secular (or more non religious than we are now)? Why exactly did these problems of radicalization and sectariarnism only crop up when the state experimented mixing politics with religion and selling extremism to common folks to prepare them for Afghan Jihad? I am sorry but it really doesn't seem that the lack of religion is the problem, its the abundance thats hurting the nation most. Its not the duty of the state to spoon fed the people with religion and humanity. The Pakistani problem is no moderation, simple blind following of the Mullahs!
Yes, typical national habit of passing blame and absolving themselves of all sins. You have done exactly that, congratulations. With one hypocrisy, you forgot to add the most dominant of all, the Arab influence. The influence is there, no doubt, however that is no explanation for where things have gone.
rattafication is not teaching...
How exactly do you want us to teach the religion then?
No. I was not really even 'wondering'. I knew such change was not possible in a mere 10 years in a majority population of over 150 millions.
I don't think I have gotten the 'sense' that Pakistanis are hell-bent on blowing themselves up. Way back in the early 2000s' Musharraf used '1%' Pakistanis are extremists? Pakistan could not survive if even 5% were extremists.
The acts of terrorism in Pakistan cannot be removed from the events of 9/11--I had alluded to those above. I don't have any answers but I don't believe that 150+ million people decided to go bezerkly religious in a short span of 10 years. I believe ALL acts of terrorism inside Pakistan are secular in nature--for power grab.
Such change is possible if its seen as a withdrawal. The U turn on the earlier policies, continued for two decades, had to take its toll. There is no "cold turkey" possible on the opiate of the masses. Pakistanis might not be hell bent on "blowing themselves up" but I can assure you that a large part of population believes the Taliban ideology is correct, even if their method of execution isn't. Thats a problem. You cant deny the extent of radicalization and extremism in this society because too long has it been denied, only to be slapped harder by the reality after some time. These acts of terror cant be all foreign, neither can be the thousands of people that are fighting the state, neither the millions supporters and the apologists. Of course not, I am not looking to remove them from that even, the problem is that the problem doesn't start from the attacks on twin towers, this is a false notion. It has to seen as beginning from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which sadly, is what Pakistanis miss. Only if it had been secular in nature, the terrorists wouldn't have found the constant supply of cadres to fill their ranks.
