^what youve got to take into consideration is what is happenning to his people both sides of the border. these people are facing a genocide with no compromise in sight from the allies (israel, pakistan, america, uk, germany, australia, india +others)
They are not "his" people, they are our people and he is the one doing the genocide on our people: the citizens of Pakistan. If you are talking about Afghanistan, thats a different discussion.
The IDPs and the actions of the ANP elected government make sure that there can be no confusion on this point. Local commanders of the army in FATA have been selected specifically from local officers. The ethnicity of the terrorists can not be their excuse neither does any ethnicity applaud the murders they commit.
bottom line is, Im trying to say ethnicity is irrelevant when talking about the Taliban.
Pakistan consisted of imperial rule by the Punjabis of West Pakistan and now over the Pathans of the North-West Frontier province. This is no different from the British imperial rulers over the Indian subcontinent. Infact, If the NWFP *people (not Taliban) *truly ever wanted to leave from the Pakistani union I would stand by them as revolutionary guerrilla war can be far more consistent with freedom principles than any inter-State war. People do not wake up one day wishing they do not want to be part of Pakistan. Its something that grows over time where people see injustice, prejudice, discrimination, lack of representation etc etc.
how does that group of statements tie into this thread ?