The problem is that one cannot kill & talk peace at the same time - the Army has launched no Operation in those areas & yet the TTP has killed an Army General, a handful of soldiers & dozens upon dozens of innocent civilians !
Even when one considers their 'grievance' - It doesn't really add up ! If the Cause is 'Because you entered into the American War this is Payback for that' how does that Cause & the Effect of blowing themselves up in our mosques, schools, colleges, marketplaces & even funerals, correlate with that Effect ? The innocent women, children & the young & old alike who are killed there are neither the ones who entered into the US War nor are they the ones who give the go-ahead for every Drone Strike !
So I think that the 'grievance' is more of a red-herring used for simply propaganda purposes whilst their true 'goal' is all about displacing the current Pakistani Government & the System by their own !
How can we accept that & if we can't than what do we talk to them about ?
I don't think that releasing hardened criminals who'd be released only to go back & do the same thing they were incarcerated for in the first place, is an option either !
Yeah i agree they do use it as a propaganda machine and the reason being that its such a strong tool to drive people towards them like nothing else does. Proving that the Pakistani government and Army are fighting for an American sponsored war which also happened to be an invasive force in Afghanistan is enough reason for people to join them that is why i said that our people are not aware enough to side line them instead they become one of them. On such issues there are so many misconceptions that exist sometimes even among sane, well informed people that its almost impossible to imagine how easy it might be to indoctrinate somebody who is far from having any idea of what God says and wants and what a Jihad is. If this was not the case i would have most definitely said we should eliminate them with force once and for all but the lack of awareness where our own people are concerned and the foreign interference as well gives them an edge over those who are trying to corner them for so many years.