Looks like this is the beginning of the end of Pakistan based Jihadis. LeT with all its tentacles was being allowed to operate without much hindrance. This albeit the fact that these Jihadis are murdering Pakistani army jawans and civilians.
For too long we have tolerated these goons that somehow they will help us “liberate” Kashmir. May be that plan would have worked if Pak Jihadis would have stayed “under the strict” direction and supervision of the Pak government.
Too bad Jihadis thought that Alqaida can provide them a better shelter than Pak government. In fact this is the same mindset that ended up destroying Afghani Talibans. They too thought that Pakistan is not needed anymore after aligning themselves with Bin Laden.
Well that was a mistake by Afghan talibs and the same mistake has been made by the Pak Jihadis.
Ultimately they were all doomed, because in this day and age, national boundaries carry much more weight than some dead concept like Pan-Islamism. Every idea today must be formed and framed within national boundaries. Only then one can get the idea moving forward.
Afghan Jihad against Soviet union would not have been successful if Russia had not respected Pak-Afghan border. Even when 100s of Russians were being slaughtered, they never dared to launch big time raids against Jihadi support centers in Peshawar.
Safe bases in Pakistan were the MAIN reason Afghan Jihad survived and finally succeeded. It is truly sad that Afghani and Pak Jihadis forgot the contributions of Pakistani motherland, and started hogging the whole credit to Jihadis alone.
USA too respected Pak-Afghan border for many many years and it has been only the last three years that FATA has been targeted using drones.
It is important for Pakistanis to realize that Pak motherland should and must always take precedence over the issues in Kashmir, Afghanistan, India, or even Denmark.
Sure some of Paks can leave (or have left) to settle in the West. But for majority of Pakistanis that number roughly 170 millions, the only place on earth to call home is the Pakistani homeland.
Army with the help of police and national guards - rangers, is the only institution that can protect the borders from the threats within and without.
Sure some people may say, Taliban Jihadis were the creation of Pak army, and that is a fact. However one must realize that any creation or entity must remain loyal to their “creator”, and Jihadis are no longer loyal to Pak army and Pakistani motherland.
And thus the time has come to crush Jihadis with full force. The effort must start from the mosques. As a first step, madrassahs can no longer be tolerated in Pakistan. any land acquired or bought in the Madrassahs must be turned over to the local education boards.
Mosques and all mosques must be brought under government control and their khutba sermons should be pre-approved. That’s what is done in Saudi and Iran. If our religious fundamentalists are going all ga ga over Saudi Islam or Irani Islam that we must see how Islam is “managed” by their governments.
That doesn’t mean we adopt the prejudices prevalent in Saudi and Iran.
For Pakistan, tolerance of other thoughts and religions should be the #1 standard to judge every text book and every khutba. Even if a single word is said against other religions, or cultures in a way to create hatred, that word must be cancelled.
Some people may say it is censorship. Yes it is to a point necessary to bring order in the society. Otherwise this religion based chaos and innocent-deaths will end up destroying the very concept of our national boundaries. And once the boundaries are gone, Pakistan will turn out to be the same as Somalia or worse Afghanistan.
