Re: Imran Khan’s toxic narrative on terrorism … needs to stop … and stop right no
ab bolney k liye kuch reh gaya hai..
I still have faith in IK because he is a good, honest man but on the issue of TTP/Taliban and religious extremism I strongly beg to differ with him. IK needs to decide which side he wants to stand on. He can either join the oppressed or the oppressors. There is no middle ground here.
Still no excuse but perhaps he can’t bring himself to condemn these tribesmen openly because he was treated so well by them in the past? I am referring to IK’s extensive travels in the region post World Cup glory in 1992, also covered by BBC. IK even wrote a book titled ‘The Pathan Warriors’ + remember his mother hails from South Waziristan.
Re. Taliban office, *Khan sahib zara socho aap kiya keh rahe ho… *Maybe you know something that we don’t! I am totally astounded by this request. This is akin to giving legitimacy to murderous, criminal TTP. There is no parallel between USA (the occupying force in Afghanistan who are now looking for a graceful exit strategy) opening Taliban office in Qatar and Pakistan doing the same.
In Pakistan’s case the army is not the occupying force in FATA. It has every right to be there. It has a legitimate, federal government authorised/ mandated mission in FATA to protect us from TTP murderers and to act against miscreants and enemies who are challenging the writ of the state; who want to impose their twisted ideology on the rest of the country. I outrightly reject Taliban and their narrow-minded wahhabism or salafism. Such ideology is incompatible with life in the 21st century. You cannot really have meaningful talks with religious bigots who feel no shame in butchering innocent people, who bomb schools and places of worship, who don’t even spare funeral processions (can any human-being stoop any lower than this?)
Talks only if TTP first renounce arms (wishful thinking for sure). These scumbags must stop suicide bombings and butchering of innocent civilians and soldiers. Pakistan cannot unilaterally declare ceasefire and let these nutheads roam freely in the country. Talks are bound to fail unless there is the continued threat of military action against groups who will not give up arms