Imran Khan with Javed Malik on Swat and Tribal Areas

GoldenAsif · November 1, 2007, 8:10am

Re: Imran Khan with Javed Malik on Swat and Tribal Areas

Yes it's very easy to come to that 'obvious' conclusion if you don't look at the whole picture (read my post 44). I bet none of us whose parents came from that area would even think about speaking out against these people atleast in public and esp. after the way you have been treated by these people in the past.

And the kind of vengeful people we are dealing with here. These people don't think like you and I. Most of them have had no formal education. All they learn from a very young age is how to use guns etc. Revenge is in their blood. These people remember enmity and animosity for centuries. There is a famous saying about pathans in general and qabailies in particular that if you kill their daughter, the whole family will wait until your daughter grows to be her age and then they will kill her! Got it!

And how do you propose we capture the alleged 2-3,000 Al-Qaeda terrorists. Sporadic shelling and bombing will not ever achieve anything apart from killing a few militants (as well as civilians) at a time. Capturing every single terrorist would require a full scale land invasion. Are we as a nation prepared to take that risk? Is our 0.5 million army prepared to take on an 'army' of 1 million people all of whom know how to operate guns and arms. I bet some of our soldiers are shi*ting in their pants after seeing their fellow soldiers beheaded in such brutal fashion by these terrorists. Does our army have the heart for this battle? And I won't be surprised if some of these suicide attacks (esp. the ones in Rawal Pindi and Sargodha recently) were 'revenge' attacks carried out by relatives of some of these soldiers who were beheaded by these militants. So where are we all heading with this ill-advised confrontation? And when will this all end? I see no imminent end to this mess.