Silence of conservatives: Why no one is protesting an attack on Malala Yousafzai?

[Captain1]

Re: Silence of conservatives: Why no one is protesting an attack on Malala Yousafzai?

@khoji

**Imran Khan:
**Referring to the attempt on Malala’s life, he talked about the scourge of extremism which he mostly blamed on the US-led war on terror. When the presenter pressed him to name the attackers, Imran Khan reluctantly said the Taliban.
When asked to condemn the Taliban, he was open in saying his party had a presence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata and that he didn’t want to give statements condemning the Taliban and leave “my party workers undefended” at their mercy.
This statement at least clarified that he has shied away from unequivocally slamming the Taliban for the sake of his party workers’ safety and not on ideological grounds.

I agree that he did not, does not ‘openly’ condemn TTP for attacking civilians, it could be thought of ‘cowardice’ trying to protect his party-workers even though the blame should squarely lie on government for failure to provide security to its citizenry. I don’t like that part of PTI but then I don’t live in FATA areas to know the ground reality.