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Hasan Nisar: Truth About Pak Taliban -2/2
Hasan Nisar - highly regarded Pakistani analyst and columnist - delivers a blistering assessment of the so-called "Taliban" in Swat, Buner, and FATA areas. According to him, Taliban: (a) consist of...
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I also agree with Mr Nisar's view that: (a) it is an insult to humanity to call these people "Taliban". (The term means "seekers of knowledge"). These people are ignorant in the extreme and are an enemy of all human progress over the past 500 years; (b) Taliban's rejection of modern law and advocacy should be condemned as a treasonous act against Pak state. The country's founder (Jinnah) and dreamer (Iqbal) were top lawyers and utilized their legal skills for Pak's creation.
-Kashif
Mr Nisar is correct in his prescriptions for dealing with Pak Taliban: (1) Pak govt must use its military muscle to weed them out and must not stoop to any form of negotiations; (2) politicians should speak forcefully against Taliban and not take a middle ground (to avoid offending people's religious sensibilities); (3) media should strop providing Taliban coverage; and (4) Pak intellectuals should not criticize govt when it takes forceful measures to (re)establish its writ.
-Kashif
I have been following the Pak Taliban menace for quite some time and agree with Mr. Nisar's core observations that Taliban: (a) are worse than savages and cannot be thought of as representing Islam; (b) are hypocritical in the extreme as they reject modernity but rely on modern weapons, media, and communications; and (c) represent a grave threat to Pak civil society on account of their archaic thinking and policies (eg. confinement of women to home, ban on modern education).
-Kashif
It was merely a power demonstration from the USA. They dropped the bomb 3 weeks after it was finished.
Mr. Nisar has a very big moral problem, if he thinks it was OK to drop a Nuke on Japan, or anyone else for that matter!