Re: A woman suicide bomber blows herself up in Peshawar
the ideology has been happily promoted until 2001! even musharaf, the leader of pakistan, an enlightened moderate, coined the term the moderate taliban.
from 1978/79 to late 2001 the definition of islam in pakistan rested with what these people said. they dont have to be in the 30's and 40's to remember 1979 in afghanistan. they can be 11 year old kids with "good" memories of what his madrassa walas were treated like pre-sept 11 and now. theres a future of militanc to be combatted and that can only happen by actually winning hearts and minds and not just tacky feel good slogans.
militancy is wrong indeed alig but you just cant wipe out ideologies - you need to solve the root cause of the problem which is the alienation of normal everyday citizens because the system is unfair, unjust, corrupt and incompetent.
there would be no baloch, taliban militancy in pakistan if the leaders did not meddle or allow large portions of the country to be ignored or exploited.
you can crush the terrorists but you cant crush the despair that leads to people behaving liek this.