Re: Northern Areas are breaking away.
What's going on in these areas is so terrible. I really was shocked to see the militants televised in these reports. The way they cover their faces. I thought I was looking at a picture of Afghanistan, with the way they were behaving. They're fully armed - they're being funded somehow. This is terrible. The fact that the maulana is on the move and the government can't get him speaks volumes of the inefficiency of the government armed forces.
And people here need to quit being sensitive. I don't see anyone painting all NWFPers with the same brush. We all know that 99% of civilians in the province are innocent, but the fact of the matter is
a. This has been going on for a while in NWFP, and its been growing - all these innocent peace loving people have been supporting the MMA which has been fostering this. For some time you've seen anti-western movements, like shutting down/bombing of CD shops and movie theatres, etc - and what has the population have to say about this? I haven't seen an uproar.
b. Maulana Fazlullah hasn't been speaking to thin air - people are listening to his radio shows. He has support. When they killed the doctor coming to deliver polio vaccines, the entire NWFP should have taken this guy and thrown him in the SWAT river.
I don't buy this "We're not at all responsible"
But I will say that NWFP folks are not directly involved in this. And every Pakistani has been silent. I blame the media that gives MMA-type hardliners coverage and supports them; and I blame the other forces in the country for their apathy and anti-musharraf stance in all this. Its allowed for these guys to take control, and that's not acceptable. Pakistanis are going to pay for their blunders. Mark my words - this is not going to end in 2 years or 1 year. This is going to explode pretty soon. These Taliban are the real Taliban - the same guys who are in Afghanistan. From what I've been reading, the Taliban arent doing too shabby out in Afghanistan either - 3 cities have fallen in the past week or so.
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And all that happening in a era of a dictator-- who get his tenure longer every time unrest happens in pakistan, is JUST a coincident????????????**