Re: NEW TTP CHIEF: Fazlullah aka Mullah Radio appointed TTP chief.
You, Sir, have hit the nail on the head! I am glad there are people like you still in Pakistan.
This IS the point and exactly why it is Pakistan's fault (not TTP's, nor America's) for being in this conflict for the last 9-odd years. We are almost at the point of no return and you rightly say that we will live in a perpetual state of low-to-mid intensity conflict with our tribal belt for the next couple of decades (if not more).
That is why there is NO option save negotiations. Pakistan CANNOT afford such a conflict. Had the tribals been a separatist type of people then this war would have ended by 2015 and our FATA belt (and perhaps even KP) would have annexed to Afghanistan. However, this is not how the Pashtuns function and this is why we will have to live in this perpetual state of warfare.
We MUST negotiate with Mullah Fazlullah as well. Search for an opportunity in these crises. What is happening with Pakistanis is exactly what happened with Jews (because of their selfish attitude and holier-than-thou approach): Fate has brought them to an impasse where they MUST engage with someone whom they bitterly opposed and touted as the worst thing to have hit Pakistan. Pretty much like how the Jews were told to sacrifice the cow (out of the very many in their possession) that they didn't want to sacrifice!
This can all be blamed at the doorstep of our pro-war "liberal" tola. I have said it before and will say it again: READ the history of these people. It is pointless to call them "Khariji" (favorite label of armchair critics), foreign-funded, ruthless animals and what-have-you. They will keep fighting and fighting because its a way of life for them. They wake up every morning eager for a fight! When our "liberal" tola (like the idiots they are) push for fighting with them they don't realize that fighting with the Taliban is "Negotiating with Taliban from a position of weakness".
I say this because the fight is in THEIR territory on THEIR terms and it is what THEY are good at (i.e. low-level intensity fighting). If you want to win against them then you MUST engage them in what they are NOT good at - diplomacy and peace. May Allah cure these people who are STILL looking to fight with the Taliban.
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If true, they're gradually showing their cards; a direct consequence of our Government's Dancing With the Wolves
I've been saying here for long that there are powerful forces inside and outside the country whose interests are best served if a perpetual low-intensity conflict rages on in the North-West, and they would lie through their teeth to the Pakistani people for that purpose.
We fought the Indians for 60 years, now we will fight these rascals for another 60 years. Enjoy the Ride, meray aziz humwatno.