Sorry to say that zaffar abbas is way off base on this.
Lal Masjid fiasco has just one responsible party. And that was the Mullah brothers and their supporters.
Anyone who want to use this failed mantra “Lal Masjid triggered fulana fulana reaction…” is surely high on bad drugs.
It is like a bank robber’s supporter kills a police officer as a reaction to police killing someone in the middle of robbery.
Lal masjid was a cancer, slowly destroying our capital city, and if untreated would have destroyed the whole country.
Swat/bunner clearly show that you cannot negotiate “peace deals” with thugs and criminals even when they raise the flag of Islam.
Why?
Because
Islamism = criminals thugs + Mullah barking in the name of our religion.
Thus Islamism is nothing but a criminal enterprise hell bent on destroying Pakistan.
These Islamists were against the very idea of Pakistan, and they are the ones who declared Jinnah as Kafir.
So what else one could expect from them.
Anything that zaffar Abbas is saying in this misguided essay is simply supporting Jihadis and their sympathizers.