Re: Obama is not good for Pakistan
I agree, our government has done literally nothing to save people living in those areas. Some local Mullah decides to harbour Taliban tattu and locals are made virtual hostages in the name of Sharia rule from this mountain to the other. This foolish act of some illiterate war mongerer has potraits as locals are welcoming them and want Afghanistan like Taliban rule there. The truth is totally inverse, I am telling you as my friend is from Kohat and talks to the family every now and then. People there want their centuries old jirga system and development in the area. Things have changed since 80s, the elders have realised the importance of development while keeping their faith and tradition as before. The sympathy for foreign ex-Mujahideen is fading away day by day.
This is the failure of Mush's policy during war on terror. Instead of using ISI for political gains, if he had used them and MI in FATA, we would have made all foriegn fighters surrender (with nobody to harbour them) and deported them to their respected countries under a special treaty in which those countries will give them pardon and give them a chance to live normal lives (i.e. Jehad is over, Soviets are defeated and your leadership gone wild and now is on run, you go home and live your life Islamically and nobody will bother you). For those who don't surrender, there are always local jails where they can be rotten (instead of making a fuzz by exporting to Gitmo). The border could be sealed to a greater effectiveness. But the prez was busy in counting Aid dollars and doing jor-tor with corrupt lota politicians creating yet another PML. Ch**ya!