Re: Tribal elders give govt 3 days to take action against Taliban...
Ya this is an intriguing question that has come up again and again. In 1965, SSGs trained in Marri entered Kashmir (Operation Grand Slam) to incite an uprising that lead to Indo-Pak war. Again, 1990s militant and Jehadis started Kashmir Jehad that India blamed on having been staged by Pakistan. Why forget Kargil episode which Pakistan said was the dead of indigenous Kashmiri Mujahideen later to admit that Pakistan had a hand in it.
Lashkar-i-Taiba has its headquarter in Punjab. And a nnumber of terrorists arrested in UK, mostly of South Asian origin, have disclosed that they received their training from Jehadi centers run by ISI and Pakistan's military. Anyhow, whenever there is a talk of harboring terrorists fingures are raised at Pakistan's securiy and intelligence agencies. The rest I don't know really. But they say the intellgence agencies are behind all this.
And although, they don't have Hera Mandis like in Lahore, people in NWFP do send their daughters to schools and colleges and never tolerate that their daughters take orders from others.
But then WHO are these Taliban? The ISI might support some of them, but why are the tribal people tolerating them? If they do wan to send their daughters to school, then why have they not fought back against these Taliban?
Where are your local tribal elders in all this? Why arent they fighting Taliban they way they did the Uzbeks?
Its seems the local tribal people, elders, whoever has the authority there simply dont care or havent felt enough of a threat to act... Or they have their hands tied and are afraid to tackle these people or cant.
I mean, if no one supports these Talibs and as you say they do not tolerate these people dictating to them and the education of their kids, then why ARE they tolerating them?
And lastly, what has made the elders of Bannu threaaten to take action and not elders in the Waziristan area, Charsada etc.