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What do the Taliban really want and why is it not easy for Pakistan to fight them? The Associated Press carried an article on December 17: “Peshawar Terror attack: What does Pakistan Taliban want?”
Answering the question, the report said: “The TTP has vowed to overthrow the government and install a harsh form of Islamic law.”
On CNN, Laura Smith-Spark and Tim Lister (“What do the Taliban want?”) reported: “When the siege finally ended, Pakistan was left reeling and the world wondering: Who would do such a thing? And what do they hope to achieve? The identity of the group behind the massacre at the army-run school in Peshawar is no mystery. The Pakistan Taliban — who have long conducted an insurgency against the Pakistani government as they seek to overthrow the authorities and bring in Sharia law — were quick to claim the terror attack.”
James Rush wrote in The Independent (“Who are the Taliban and what do they want?“): “The Pakistani Taliban have been fighting to topple the government and set up a strict Islamic state. Following a major army operation against insurgents in tribal areas, the group has vowed to step up its attacks.”
This same question has long been asked in the English press. Hamida Ghafour reporting forThe National in 2010 (“What do the Taliban really want?“) wrote about the Afghan Taliban: “But who are the Taliban, and what do they want? Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for Mullah Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, said in an interview with CNN last year: “We ask from the beginning and we say once again: to enforce the sharia law and Islamic government in Afghanistan, to remove foreign forces from our country.”
Arthur Bright in the Christian Science Monitor in 2012 (“Who are the Taliban and what do they want?“) quoted an expert saying this of the Taliban’s funding: “A large majority … is thought to derive from wealthy individuals living in Arab Gulf states … Insurgents may also use the Hajj — the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca — as a time to raise funds. These ties to Gulf-based militants may account for al Qaeda’s influence over some groups.”
Two things are obvious. First, what the Taliban really want is Shariah law and two, they are not a wild and isolated group but one with proper financing. The question is why they make that demand. The answer is in the law. The Pakistani Constitution’s Article 227 (Islamic Provisions, Part IX) reads: “(1) All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the Injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah, in this Part referred to as the Injunctions of Islam, and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such Injunctions.”
This commitment is clear and unambiguous. It comes from a promise in 1949 made by Pakistan’s Constituent Assembly under Jinnah’s successor, Liaquat Ali Khan. That text, the Objectives Resolution, reads: “Whereas sovereignty over the entire Universe belongs to Almighty Allah alone, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust;
And whereas it is the will of the people of Pakistan to establish an order: Wherein the State shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people; Wherein the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed; Wherein the Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and Sunnah.”
Despite this, Pakistan’s laws are mostly the same as secular India’s, which in turn are mostly the same as the colonial British under Macaulay had written them in the mid-19th century. In the 1980s, President Ziaul Haq introduced some Islamic laws. This included such things as lashing people caught with alcohol, and laws on rape and on blood money. Many of these laws are on the book but not really put into practice because the Pakistani state is unwilling to turn the clock back. The analyst Khaled Ahmed calls Pakistan an incompletely Islamised state. Meaning that the promise of full Shariah has been withheld, leading to a lack of clarity exploited by the Taliban.
To answer the question that analysts have been scratching their head over: what the Taliban really want is implementation of Pakistan’s Constitution. That is why it is difficult to fight them — because they say they are right on the question of law. No fight against them will succeed, or can even be properly started, unless the confusion over the Constitution and its promise is resolved.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/809899/what-do-the-taliban-want/
It should be obvious by now that source of all terrorism and religious extremism in Pakistan is Liaquat Ali Khan's Objectives Resolution that was countered by Pakistani first cabinet's non-Muslim leader of the opposition in his own words:
Sris Chandra ChattopadhyayaIn my conception of state where people of different religion live there is no place for religion in the state. Its position must be neutral: no bias for any religion. If necessary, it should help all the religions equally. No question of concession or tolerance to any religion. It smacks of inferiority complex. The state must respect all religions: no smiling face for one and askance look to the other. The state religion is a dangerous principle. Previous instances are sufficient to warn us not to repeat the blunder. We know people were burnt alive in the name of religion. Therefore, my conception is that the sovereignty must rest with the people and not with anybody else....[T]he words "equal rights as enunciated by Islam" are—I do not use any other word—a camouflage. It is only a hoax to us, the non-Muslims. There cannot be equal rights as enunciated by Islam. It goes without saying that by introducing the religious question, the differences between the majority and the minority are being perpetuated, for how long, nobody knows. And, as apprehended by us, the difficulty of interpretation has already arisen. The accepted principle is that the majority, by their fair treatment, must create confidence in the minority. Whereas the Honorable mover of the resolution promises respect, in place of charity or sufferance for the minority community the deputy minister, Dr. Qureshi, advises the minority to win the goodwill of the majority by their behavior. In the House of the Legislature also we find that, while the prime minister keeps perfectly to his dictum, others cannot brook that the opposition should function in the spirit of opposition. The demand is that the opposition should remain submissive. That is Dr. Qureshi’s way of thinking. The minorities must be grateful for all the benevolence they get and must never complain for the malevolence that may also be dealt out to them. That is his solution of the minority problem.
Objectives Resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When a majority of legislators ignore their elected opposition's rightful concern, futuristic disasters become inevitable! Such is the case with Taliban and other religious extremists in Pakistan!
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