March 31, 2009

PESHAWAR: The chief of Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, on Tuesday took responsibility for an attack on a police academy in Lahore.

“Yes, we have carried out this attack. I will give details later,” Mehsud, an al Qaeda-linked leader based in Waziristan tribal region told foreign news agency (Reuters) by telephone.

On Monday, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik in a press conference point out the involvement of Baitullah Mehsud in Manawan attack.

Why are the Ziaists in Pakistan, the supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami and Imran Khan, in a state of denial?

Dawn Editorial
Tuesday, 31 Mar, 2009

It should be clear by now that we are at war with ourselves as the enemy within grows more audacious by the day. Yet there are educated people in this country who continue to blame American foreign policy and the ever-potent ‘foreign hand’ for the wave of terrorism sweeping the country. This argument is deeply flawed on several counts.

For one thing, the Pakistani state threw its weight behind America’s Afghan policy in the late ’70s and after 9/11, and as such we are equally responsible for the fallout. It is also common knowledge that Pakistani intelligence agencies once provided logistical support to militant organisations that could further our ‘strategic depth’ interests in Kashmir and across the Durand Line.

It is argued that those behind the storming of the police training centre in Lahore on Monday, and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team earlier this month, were so sophisticated in their methods that they must necessarily have had the backing of a foreign power. Such reasoning overlooks the fact that those who were freedom fighters a few years ago and are now labelled as terrorists were trained by the best in the business.

Let us assume for a moment, even if the truth lies elsewhere, that the terrorists who attacked Lahore on Monday were in the pay of an antagonistic neighbour. Does that absolve the Punjab government and the Pakistani state of the charge of gross negligence? Does it in any way disprove those who maintain that such incidents point to monumental intelligence failures and security lapses? It doesn’t matter who the paymasters might be.

What we have now are Pakistanis killing Pakistanis, Muslims killing Muslims. And while we are at it, let us discard once and for all the absurd notion that the people who carry out such dastardly acts cannot possibly be Muslims. They are Muslims. In fact, these terrorists and militants consider themselves to be far truer Muslims than those who oppose them.

The militants involved in Monday’s siege may have been overcome but it is time to hammer out a political and social consensus on this issue. It is time to show the kind of fervour the obscurantists demonstrate in abundance but the well-meaning couch in carefully chosen words. This is a fight and it cannot be won without throwing punches.

The country’s mainstream political parties need to draw a line in the sand and show the people, with no room for ambiguity, where they stand in this battle for the soul of Pakistan. The religio-political parties must also make their positions clear. President Obama says that US ground forces will not enter Pakistan. We would be well advised to not give them the chance. If we can’t do the job ourselves, others might do it for us. And that way lies disaster.

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Some relevant comments:

Kashif said:

Oooppsss!!!!!! Its not just Rehman Malik, now Bait Ullah Masud himself accepted the responsibility of yesterday’s attacks. All Taliban well wishers please condem him and Tehrik Taliban Pakistan with same intensity that you had yesterday against RAW, RM, Taseer etc

democrate said:

Taliban supporter, how soft are you for talban and terrorists and how harsh are you for government.show just one statement where u criticized talban with harsh manners.plz back the government not undermine the goverment.remmember how american citizens supported thier worst president after 9/11 incedent.

Kashif said:

NRO, Judicary, COD, elite corruption, dis-functional institutions etc etc are all our domestic issues Talibanization is not. Talibanization is a war between west and middle east we are merly providing them the fertile battle ground. We do not have any disagreements on domestic issues its the laundry list that IK, NS, SS, etc etc repeats every single day.

What is your solution to Talibanization? IK, JI, Hamid Gul say negotiate with them. Americans tried to negotiate with Taliban before attacking Afghanistan people like Hamid Gul backed Taliban not to hand over Osama. Nuts like Hamid Gul have a wiered agenda they want to bring down west. I have absolutely no problem with that as long as they have means to do that. American supermacy will be successfully challenged oneday by countries like China, Japan, Germany or some alliances that have resources to challenge them on multiple fronts. Countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan can not survive one year w/o western aid. Middle east which has oil weapon (I don’t know for how long) they don’t challenge west. We can not bring the western civilization down but if we continued our existing path we will bring African style civil wars in south Asia.

“I have never defending the Taliban but have stated that they are a symptom of a greater problem which is systemic in this society. ” Thats what your leader IK also says he doesn’t justify he just expalins Talibanization and susidal attacks.

All of you first attempt to sell their philosphies (nizam e adal and all BS) but when you are pushed to defend suside attacks, woman rights etc you down grade your status from staunch supporter to political commentator.

There is social injustice (that you think is the root cause of Talibanization) in every part of the globe. Before Mushraaf we had Zia and Ayub as distators and ZAB, BB and NS era which were far from true democracies. But there were no suside attacks to over come that. This present wave of violence which is threatning very existence of our Pakistan is not because of our social disorders (dis-functional institutions, corrupt elite class, economic disparity etc etc) the source is nuts like Osama and Hamid Gul who think they can bring west down using our land, our people and very very limited resources. Our dis-coharent social fabric is providing some fuel to their crazy dreams but it is not the root cause. Like rest of the developing and develop world we can over come our issues one by one provided we are not vanished from the face of the earth thanks to these few “beautiful” minds.

MalangBaba said:

I am shocked at the latest terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan. When will the intelligentsia of the country realize, the main threat to the country is not from India, Israel or the US, but the cancer of Jihadi Islamism that it’s military has nurtured within its bowels to serve the interests of Zionism and imperialism.

Those who are born after 1970 probably have not seen the time of Zia when Qazi Hussain, Hameed Gul and US FM George Schulz used to chant ALLAH-O_AKBAR in Afghan camps by joining and raising their hands and fists together.

This nation needs to unite against these terrorists. Hiding our heads in sand and blaming RAW or Israel is not going to eliminate the danger. We have no choice but to choose either Algeria or Somalia model. Do we want to see Lahore a next Mogadishu? If not then, political difference aside all nation should support the government in its efforts to eliminate these militants by using brutal force or by dividing the enemy.

Biggest responsibility rests with media that needs to restrain those anchors and observers who portray these terrorists as ‘innocents’ or RAW agents contradicting the clear proof. If these terrorists succeed they will do same to Sharifs what they did to Bhuttos, do the same to Qazi and Munawwar Hasan what they did to Hikmat Yar, and will treat Imran Khan the same way they treated Ahmed Shah Masood. Don’t forget Talban and AlQaida are the most savage beasts under the sun.

Rashid said:

@afzaalkhan said:

best was when baitullah mehsood was contacted by hamid gul and safdar abbasi on order of benazir and he goes BB i have no quarrel with u why would I plan to kill u?
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So you think, baitullah mehsood being a “good muslim brother” would not lie and he would accept if he is really involved in the killing of BB? WTF? This is your logic??? the word of that MF terrorist is more believable to you than what is obvious???

MalangBaba said:

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“Rehman Malik said these terrorist belong to Mahsood, he took less time to decalre this than India took after Mumbai attacks.”

In both cases some terrorists were captured alive. despite all the denials and false claims by some in media now it is proved that Mumbai terrorists belonged to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and were Pakistani. Nawaz Sharif was the first one to admit that those terrorists were from Pakistan. Denial is no solution.

fanaticmulla said:

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kashif

we condemn this attack if India, Israel and USA did that but we support it if they are done by beardos ..this is the logic these MF beardos have ….

after this attack even rightist in media are condemning beardos and you rightly quoted MM..

all the day these MF beardos were raising slogans and now their brother SOB beardos in Wazirstan have claimed responsibility and now they are start crying and abusing ..you MF beardos can abuse as much as you can ..in the end every Pakistani will be against your terrorist activities

MF morons

Source: pkpolitics

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