May 27, 2007 at 13:47:57

Handing the World's Seventh Largest City to Terrorists

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Reportedly, on the day of the bombing, a meeting of the intelligence group was taking place in the ill-fated restaurant; the Taliban who sent the suicide bomber was rumoured to be a middle-aged man rather than a youth; he evidently knew about the meeting of the contact group. He had a paper message tied around his leg, which said that similar death will be dealt to all those who spy for the U.S! It is now plain to conclude that there will be severe reprisals in Waziristan and in other places in NWFP to avenge Dadullah's death. The Waziristan and Bajaur agreements are now dead; appeasement never works. NWFP has become the innocent victim of the war on terror and its innocent citizens will now pay a very heavy price. In war only the innocent, poor and women suffer. On another front, President Musharaff's shenanigans in the wake of his dispute with the Supreme Court do not bode well for the continuing territorial integrity of Pakistan.

The handing over of Karachi to the MQM terrorist squads, who killed more than forty persons and injured countless others on 12 May, will rank as one of the most callous and cynical acts ever in Pakistan's sad history. To imagine that the world's seventh largest mega-city could be handed over to a terrorist organization and gunmen for political reasons is unimaginable. The people of Pakistan have lost any remaining faith in their leaders and the man in the street is convinced that their leaders do not want to serve them but to enrich themselves. What a sad conclusion and indictment.

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I am a retired government officer having served more than 30 years, many of those in the tribal areas of Pakistan. I head the Regional Institute of Policy Research & Training in Peshawar. These days we are involved in various projects dealing (more...)

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