the pakistani people are being too lenient with the role played by pak fauj in creating this situation. i suppose they, like you iconoclast, cannot comprehend what has just happend in pakistan.
there was a small amount of evidence, a few years ago, that pak military took the steps they did to ‘protect’ pakistan from a bullish, angry america. all that has fizzled away im afraid to the more plausible suggestion that pak military has now taken this opportunity to become allied with powerful and rich (partly including india) at the detriment of its own national interests.
it is indeed hard to live as a ‘’‘possible’‘’ pariah state, but to know pak military chose to go the civil war route is dumbfounding. its a new model of diplomacy that i, personally, find alien.
yes the militants are barbaric, but what rules of engagement can we expect of a tribal, uneducated people that have had a war enforced upon them? are we really so naive as to expect these people to not bomb our cities if we war with them?
i, like the majority of pakistanis, would have liked to have seen pakistan make a real effort to end this war when the democratic came in. the militant halted all attacks for three months whilst the new government formulated its strategy. then the confirmation came when gilani went to the white house and said ‘this is our war’ a notion the pakistani people know isnt true. the pak army propaganda (zaid hamid, ahmed qureshi etc) is no better and cannot bury all the facts from this situation
who is to blame for the terrorism in pakistan? - talibs, both afghani and pakistani
who is to blame for creating and maintaining the environment in which terror is thriving? - US, pakistan state
pakistanis dont need convincing, they need solutions.