By: Muhammad.Quddus

Muhammad.Quddus — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:26:09 +0000

“seem” to know? At least you are on the right track.

By: israr

israr — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:38:46 +0000

Security agencies can eliminate terrorism easily if they want to do so.

By: Tribal Manto

Tribal Manto — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:11:28 +0000

Pakistan is not a weak state, but all she needs a national consensus and integration to challenge the emerging order (response of the time). A sincere and across the board consensus where all the key stakeholders should have their say in the process. We can defeat this menace with this sincere and candid approach. Sincerity and wisdom is paramount in this regard.

By: Feroz

Feroz — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:50:37 +0000

The militants seem to know what they are doing while the State is sinking in the quicksand.

By: Imran

Imran — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:58:52 +0000

Short, Crisp and beautiful analysis.

By: aviratam

aviratam — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:51:48 +0000

a good analysis, perhaps need to add in the last para the need for blocking access to financial resources.

By: V. C. Bhutani

V. C. Bhutani — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:55:08 +0000

It seems there is a complete leadership vacuum in Pakistan. None of the triumvirate – president, prime minister, army chief, not necessarily in that order – seems inclined to take a call on the question of US drone strikes. The US has left Pakistan in no doubt that if Pakistan does not rein in its Taliban and others who keep targeting US-led Isaf in Afghanistan, then the US has no option but to do the needful on its own. The US is doing just that. It does not occur to anyone in Pakistan that it does not serve any purpose to whip up anti-US feelings, demonstrations, and protests, because Pakistani public opinion has no viability of its own: it takes its views from what official agencies tell them. We see that Pakistan does nothing to restrain the Taliban, or Haqqani Network, or any other brand of terrorists, fashionably called militants in Pakistan, as if there is no disagreement between government and ‘militants’ but only as to their methods. Why should the US care about Pakistan’s ‘feelings’ in the matter? Someone needs to arise in Pakistan to take the matter earnestly into careful consideration and deal with internal terror, about which even the Pakistan army seems to have formed some late realization. It was demonstratively represented that Pakistan army had realized that the principal source of menace to Pakistan was internal terror and not India after all. Secondly, the Pakistan army was also said to have achieved a further realization that it had been unrealistic to have been thinking in terms of ‘territorial depth’ in Afghanistan vis-à-vis India. Now that these profundities have dawned on the Pakistan army, someone should think about controlling the home made terrorists, even if they go on calling them militants or ‘freedom fighters’. Pakistan army and other leaders should have known that hobnobbing with terrorists was neither honourable nor even proper activity for a State under international law. Now those terrorists, freed from ‘duty’ in Afghanistan and India, have turned their attention on Pakistan itself. Didn’t Mrs Hillary Clinton say that if you rear snakes in your backyard do not expect that the snakes shall bite only the neighbours? Those snakes have started biting inside Pakistan. Whenever they raise their heads to operate in Afghanistan, the US will use its drones to destroy them. When they seek to act in India, one hopes the Indian government shall have self-respect enough to respond in the proper manner of a country under stack. But, of course, time will tell. V. C. Bhutani, Delhi, India, 7 Dec 2013, 0524 IST