Re: 10 tourists assassinated in Fairy Meadows (Gilgit)
Gilgit is probably one of the most naturally beautiful places of the world. Shocking and reprehensible attack. I hope the perpetrators will be brought to justice and given the strictest, severest punishment possible.
l understand these are confusing, difficult times for the country but please spare us the done-to-death conspiracy theories about those terrorist groups backed by “US/India.” For starters, “Govt of Pak” has NEVER given *any “*proves” that TTP/BLA are supported by any other country notwithstanding Rehman Malik’s countless diatribes about “external hand.” Besides even a conspiracy theorist should recognize the implausibility of the theory that the West and the United States would spend billions if not trillions of $ trying to stabilize the godforsaken jungle that is Afghanistan and purge the taliban from there while also simultaneously supporting taliban’s brothers-in-arms in Pak who are aiming to impose the same despicable totalitarianism on a much larger scale and in much more important Pakistan that the taliban did in Afg. No one wants more troubles emanating from the region.
Also I would imagine India would not frolic with those terrorists either because when you nurture snakes to bite someone else, as Pakistan unfortunately did to bite Indians and Afghans, it might not be long before those snakes come to bite you as well. And if you say that no some elements in India might be trying to exact some kind of tit-for-tat for Pakistan’s misadventures in Kashmir then where is the evidence? All-Powerful Army and intelligence agencies of Pakistan that together eat up bulk of the country’s resources and despite doing so are held in very high esteem by majority of the county’s people can’t be so extremely useless that they have failed to uncover any evidence of Indian support for TTP. And if TTP savages are supported by India/China/Ethiopia or whatever then that is all the more reason to counter the threat they pose aggressively and wipe those TTP savages out of the surface of the earth instead of trying to rationalize their violence and dilly-dallying about ‘negotiations’ and other such nonsense.