Pakistani government feels weight of army's heavy hand

[Jolie]

Re: Pakistani government feels weight of army’s heavy hand

@ekumunng

It should be a civilian govt. going all out against the terrorists. Its irony that Army will take the lead not the govt. and in the end it will be a half-hearted effort resulting in more displaced people than anything else.

At this in Islamabad, Egos are running very high and it is costing the nation in many ways.** Talks with TTP were never a good option, that period only gave them chance to spread-out, hide in cities and attack across the country.**

Err, what makes you think that period didn’t give army the time to prepare, restrain and locate them?

In virtually all military history, it’s so typical for sides to sign temporary truce with a clear intention of preparing for war. This is how some of the best battles are won! There’s always so much to detente and diplomacy than meets the eye - it’s one of those things public at that time never finds out. The real story always comes out later.

I think it’s getting quite tedious and tiring to see Pakistanis just speculating, hypothesizing and guesstimating the worse for sake of it. Are we really so desperate for military-civilian confrontation?