Reply to Daneshmand's post, the thread might have been deleted but I answered after it was deleted and didn't want the post going to waste:
Lets stop abusing the poster just because he is Iranian. We must be aware what the situation looks like to outsiders from fairly stable countries. To them it looks like Pakistan will fall within minutes and is highly unstable and in many ways this is true.
The difference between Irani and Pakistani psyche is that Iran treats the killing of its people as a major offense. Every attack that has occurred against Iran be it by Jundullah or other groups has been in some way responded to. On the other hand we are oblivious to the suffering of our people and we have become used to this killing. We do not consider these suicide bombings, targetted attacks and shootings as a major phenomenon and go about our lives normally.
This is the victim of war and bloodshed. We have become used to violence and it has become intermeshed in our society.We hear about an attack and go about things normally. Iranians and other nations treat human life as sacred.
In reality we should be like them and several ministers should resign as a result of these attacks. But in Pakistan we have never seen such resignations.
There is a difference between state collapse and instability. What Pakistan is facing is instability, not collapse of the state. Though in some cases this (state collapse) has happened (like in Swat and FATA) where the institutions have crumbled as the power of the Taliban and other takfiri outfits rose it is not happening all over the country. These terrorists have challenged the power holders but they are far from ruling Pakistan as a state.
There are a number of questions that we must ask.
Can the Taliban actually control territory-lets say they control FATA (even though such rule is contested), can they really control Islamabad or Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar or any other city? They use suicide bombings, car bombings and assasinations to weaken the state fabric, but can they tear it completely. Can they really enforce sharia law? (the way they see it)... Do they represent the majority of the people? Do they have wider political/national/ethnic support? If the answer is no then it is clear the state itself will not fall though it will continue "struggling" and "straggling" along. Not an ideal situation you would say, but also not one where the government, the community or people are about to fall to terrorists.
Also there are beautiful images of resistance to the takfiris which often the western media avoids. Malala Yousufzai, Aitzaz Hassan, the police guard who grappled with a suicide bomber. So there is hope. But there are problems as well. We need to for one, end our apathy to death and destruction, something we have grown used to due to years of undying, constant violence.
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