Imran's engagement with the terrorists

Re: Imran’s engagement with the terrorists

I cannot come up with anything, that’s why I invitied you to put on table something concrete to eliminate those guys.

First you spend two decades to bring those monsters about to fight your proxy wars from Kabul to Kashmir. You keep forcing your entire society to listen to Friday sermons eulogizing those holy warriors and donate something before you leave mosques, let your country become a jihadi workshop for aspirants from all over the world to come, train and practise their skills wherever they want — until they return to their training centre to twists the hands that trained them that you wake up and start hating them.

Tell me a lie as barefaced as this that you can fight them off, and this one also that your policy to make them bite the dust through power has been immensely successful so that I can clap for you. Tell me that you have been hugely successful in isolating them within your society. Tell me that Karzari and Obama do not want to talk to Taliban. Tell me that Britain did not talk to the IRA. Tell me that Madrid did not talk to the ETA. Tell me that Colombo did not talk to the LTTE.

A society as divided as ours — always prone to religious blackmailing under a dynastically-hostage political system, cannot wait forever for one policy to succeed. Until you invent a bomb that kills only fanatics, you may need to weigh all options however aburd they may sound.