Now It Is A Matter Of Do Or Die For Pakistan
Muhammad Khurshid
July 02, 2009
Now this is matter of do or die for Pakistan. Either Pakistan will win this war on terrorim at all cost or it will lose the credibility. There will be no denying that officials with the system of government have created terrorists in Pakitan. They have used media for lionizing the terrorists, but now the situation ahs been changed to some extent as now the media has started a campaign against the terrorists. But today the suicide attack near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan has increased terror and fear in the whole country. According to reports, some six people have been killed in the blast in Rawalpindi. Situation in Peshawar and adjoining tribal areas is also tense as the terrorists are on the rampage. Now the rulers of Pakistan have to decide whether they are serious in this war or they are just playing politics on this sensitive issue. Thousands of people have been killed and millions have gone homeless due to the dirty politics of rulers of Pakistan.
A leading newspaper of Pakistan in its comment stated that according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the amir of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Baitullah Mehsud ordered 18 of his wounded men slaughtered before retreating in the face of the army operation going on against him. The men lost their lives because they were no longer fit to keep up with the rest as they made good their escape. Seeing the operation unfolding effectively against the TTP, the parents of the boys he had shanghaied into his suicide-bomber training camps begged him to release their offspring. He refused.
Baitullah is showing signs of being under pressure by employing savage tactics of retaliation too. Anyone who speaks against him inside the vast tracts occupied by the various warlords is liable to get killed. As he moves from one safe place to another safe place to avoid being hit by the Pakistan jets, he is carefully monitoring his rivals within the Taliban and eliminating them. As he faces what may be the last chapter in his book of unbelievable cruelty, he is carefully sustaining the psychology of intimidation among populations that are forced to live under his authority.
Fear of death will catch up with the most valiant among human beings. The Pashtun nation, known to be the bravest in the world, has suffered the humiliation of being at his beck and call simply because the state of Pakistan was too weak to face him and read him the riot act. There are many not so noble reasons behind why the state of Pakistan became impotent, but the effect of loss of internal sovereignty has been devastating on the psyche of the Pashtun. Used to living honourably, the Pashtun man has had to tolerate being enslaved by the warlords.
Baitullah´s technique is based on the extremely savage ways of inflicting death. He has had people he doesn´t like slaughtered on CDs and then distributed the gruesome scenes all over the tribal areas and the whole wide world. One report about him said that when a commander complained that a local population was reluctant to accept his authority, Baitullah quietly asked him to take a dozen elders of the area out and behead them in front of the local population. Now that people are a little less scared of him they admit that public beheadings were something that the bravest among them could not withstand.
Above all, Baitullah has used "Islam" as a part of his evil enterprise. Nowhere in the world has the risk of being deceived by fake piety been greater than in Pakistan. Warlords in Swat and Khyber have been haranguing local populations on their campaign of "Islamic correction". They have been inflicting cruel punishment on men and women by saying that these were prescribed by Allah and the Sharia. The authority of the Taliban in Afghanistan was based on inhuman treatment of the common man in the name of Islam; but what the Pakistani Taliban have achieved in Pakistan has eclipsed anything that Mullah Umar did during his dark period of rule.
Baitullah got away with a lot as long as the people of Pakistan thought he was an Islamic soldier and was spreading true Islam in the face of America´s infidel assault on Afghanistan. Tragically they ignored the truly pious men he killed when they disagreed with his modus operandi. Pakistan ignored the innocent local elders he put to death and also turned its face away when he eliminated the clergy who disagreed with him. When he spoke, he was believed; when the state of Pakistan spoke, it was not believed. After killing Ms Benazir Bhutto in 2007, he saw that the public reaction was not good, so he declared that he had convened a shura in South Waziristan and announced that "harming a woman was against the teachings of Islamic Shariah". The tragedy is that even after eyewitnesses have vowed that they saw him sending the killers after Ms Bhutto, most Pakistanis believe him.
Far from being a pious warrior in the Pashtun tradition, Baitullah uses deceit as a tactic of popular disarmament. The people now know him but are helpless living under his authority. The people´s true verdict will come after the Pakistan army has hunted him down.
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A leading newspaper of Pakistan in its comment stated that according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the amir of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Baitullah Mehsud ordered 18 of his wounded men slaughtered before retreating in the face of the army operation going on against him. The men lost their lives because they were no longer fit to keep up with the rest as they made good their escape. Seeing the operation unfolding effectively against the TTP, the parents of the boys he had shanghaied into his suicide-bomber training camps begged him to release their offspring. He refused.
Baitullah is showing signs of being under pressure by employing savage tactics of retaliation too. Anyone who speaks against him inside the vast tracts occupied by the various warlords is liable to get killed. As he moves from one safe place to another safe place to avoid being hit by the Pakistan jets, he is carefully monitoring his rivals within the Taliban and eliminating them. As he faces what may be the last chapter in his book of unbelievable cruelty, he is carefully sustaining the psychology of intimidation among populations that are forced to live under his authority.
Fear of death will catch up with the most valiant among human beings. The Pashtun nation, known to be the bravest in the world, has suffered the humiliation of being at his beck and call simply because the state of Pakistan was too weak to face him and read him the riot act. There are many not so noble reasons behind why the state of Pakistan became impotent, but the effect of loss of internal sovereignty has been devastating on the psyche of the Pashtun. Used to living honourably, the Pashtun man has had to tolerate being enslaved by the warlords.
Baitullah´s technique is based on the extremely savage ways of inflicting death. He has had people he doesn´t like slaughtered on CDs and then distributed the gruesome scenes all over the tribal areas and the whole wide world. One report about him said that when a commander complained that a local population was reluctant to accept his authority, Baitullah quietly asked him to take a dozen elders of the area out and behead them in front of the local population. Now that people are a little less scared of him they admit that public beheadings were something that the bravest among them could not withstand.
Above all, Baitullah has used "Islam" as a part of his evil enterprise. Nowhere in the world has the risk of being deceived by fake piety been greater than in Pakistan. Warlords in Swat and Khyber have been haranguing local populations on their campaign of "Islamic correction". They have been inflicting cruel punishment on men and women by saying that these were prescribed by Allah and the Sharia. The authority of the Taliban in Afghanistan was based on inhuman treatment of the common man in the name of Islam; but what the Pakistani Taliban have achieved in Pakistan has eclipsed anything that Mullah Umar did during his dark period of rule.
Baitullah got away with a lot as long as the people of Pakistan thought he was an Islamic soldier and was spreading true Islam in the face of America´s infidel assault on Afghanistan. Tragically they ignored the truly pious men he killed when they disagreed with his modus operandi. Pakistan ignored the innocent local elders he put to death and also turned its face away when he eliminated the clergy who disagreed with him. When he spoke, he was believed; when the state of Pakistan spoke, it was not believed. After killing Ms Benazir Bhutto in 2007, he saw that the public reaction was not good, so he declared that he had convened a shura in South Waziristan and announced that "harming a woman was against the teachings of Islamic Shariah". The tragedy is that even after eyewitnesses have vowed that they saw him sending the killers after Ms Bhutto, most Pakistanis believe him.
Far from being a pious warrior in the Pashtun tradition, Baitullah uses deceit as a tactic of popular disarmament. The people now know him but are helpless living under his authority. The people´s true verdict will come after the Pakistan army has hunted him down.
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