H Nisar: Truth About Pak Taliban -1/2

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 a disparate group of opportunists who are engaged in confiscation of private property, destruction of state property, and murder of civilians; (b) represent an extreme danger to civil society on account of their archaic ideas about women, education, law, and dress; (c) are hypocrites in the extreme who rely on modern inventions (such as weapons, phones, and media) while claiming to be against modernity; and (d) are an insult to the word "Taliban" (ie. seekers of truth and knowledge) as they are practically "blind" to reason. Mr. Nisar emphasis that: (e) the state must use its armed forces to crush the Taliban and reestablish its writ; (f) politicians and intellectuals must speak forcefully against the Taliban menace; and (g) Pakistani media should stop providing Taliban legitimacy via in-depth coverage. This interview was recorded in Spring 2009 before the launch of an "all-out war" in Swat by Pak military.

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[KashifHKhan]

PART 3:

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

[KashifHKhan]

PART 2:

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

[KashifHKhan]

PART I:

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

[anyonelala]

very well said hasan nisar! burn all the taliban pigs!

[nayiabhishek]

Hasan saheb, yahi islam ka nichod he jo vo follow kar rahe he, aap log to Moderate muslim he jo sirf chune hue Quran ke aayate padhte he.

[hatyogi]

Who is the idiot who coined the terms good taliban and bad taliban. Where were these "good taliban" for all these years when the "bad taliban" were wreaking havok...... hatching eggs. Good or bad Taliban is taliban. Who the hell is going to peep in their heads to brand them good or bad.

[GreaterPakistan]

This is good video, but taleban and civilan government need to work together, end of the taleban are from our soil.

[lalapruza]

Kill all munafik mullahs and talib thugs and send them to afghanistan or india