Kid Myth 1: "Operation has continued for 10 yrs with no result" – Wrong: ops limited/localised. FATA 4 agencies & Swat cleared by Pak Army
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 2:" Terrorism is due to US invasion of Afghanistan" – WRONG. Pakistan was suffering from terrorism well before 9/11. In 1980s and 90s.
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 3: "Taliban avenge drone strikes – terrorism a reaction" WRONG. How are Pak civilians, women, kids resp for drones? Dumb. #Pakistan
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 4:"Taliban are foreign funded- CIA/RAW use them" – why do you want to talk to them in that case. Politicians call them 'our own people'
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 5: "Taliban will break and many will get busy in Afghanistan after 2014 drawdown" -NO,they want to set up a Caliphate in Pakistan areas
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 5:"Thru talks we will find out what Taliban want" – We already know what they want: dissolution of Pak state/Constitution & a Caliphate
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 6:"Taliban are a Pashtun phenomena -reacting against Afghanistan" What about the Punjabis fighting, TTP non-Pashtun leaders?Foreigners?
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 8:"Army went to FATA under Musharraf & radicalised population" – Disingenuous: Al Qaeda & Afghan Taliban made bases there & recruited..
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 9: "Afghan and Pakistan Taliban are totally distinct" Half-truths again: Pak Taliban share the ideology & treat Al Qaeda as umbrella
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 10:"Drone strikes kill civilians and anger local population" Surveys show divided results..10 times more civilians killed by Taliban
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 11:"US is carrying out drone strikes unilaterally": Wrong. Gen Musharraf admitted his consent; a military commander praised them. #Pak
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 12: "TTP are Pashtun groups angry with Pakistan state/USA" – Half truth: Militant/sectarian organisations from Punjab supply soldiers..
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth13: "TTP exists as Afghan intelligence supports&gives bases to it" – Half true: Gulf states finance some grps,Afghan Taliban support it
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 14: "If we give Sharia courts in FATA, militancy will end" -We did that thru Nizam-e-Adal-Malakand in 2009/10 but did not end militancy
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 15:" US talks to Taliban, so should we" False:US state does not risk weakening by talking,it is exiting Afghanistan.We have to survive.
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 16:"Liberals want war in Pakistan" NO, Liberals&sane voices want Pak state to be strengthened and end its outsourcing of its monopoly!
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 17:"Liberals in the world want peace,Pak liberals want war": Nonsense.When nation state under threat you fight to save it not surrender
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 18: "Musharraf's decision to join war on terror led to radicalisation"-Half-truth, sources there since long.Double game made it worse.
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 19: "This is not our war" Misleading, dangerous.Pakistani state-GHQ,ISI,Police,Naval base,Civilians attacked. We are in War conditions.
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Myth 20:"Ext enemies want to destroy us": Wrong. No country wants a nuclear state to meltdown.Pakistan hostage to failed security doctrines.
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) September 22, 2013
Wonderful, I agree with every bit Raza Rumi’s prescient surmise. That is why I am not hopeful of any solution to current Pakistan crisis unless Pakistan is willing to show determination and resolve to fight the Talbanis. For that you dont just need arms, you also need to provide protection to its poorer population which can easily be swayed by the lure of money to join these jihadis; it needs first to secularise its curriculum, then open modern schools and finally close most of the wahabi and even other madrasas, unless they agree to modern secular curriculum and restrict Islamic teaching only to Hifzul Quran and foremost ban the Blasphemy law altogether. Can we ever imagine someone like Nawaz/Shabaz Sharifs or Imran Khan or Maulana Fazlul Rehman to agree to this? No.
I like the myths the way they have been defined.But who defined the myths in the first place? I am sure some people some where in the upper echelon also know they are myths. I am also sure that some people also know the facts, the problems and the solutions.
1. It will be stupid to engage your all army in tribal areas in presence of an enemy like India.
2. Pakistan was suffering from terrorism before 9/11 as well but you have to be blind to not see the difference in magnitude and intensity
3. Not only Taliban many other forces are operative. Hence there is uncertainty all around. Thats why IK asking for negotiations and giving them a face
4. We want to talk to them so as to be able to distinuish such RAW funded groups from insiders
5. There is a huge difference in what they intend and what actually is likely
6. Wheverer there is honey, flies get together around it. All kind of criminal elements also joined hands with Pashtuns because they see their interest in it
7. Our grand kid forgot to mention the 7th myth and went to 8th. So there you go
8. Had army not gone there and made itself part of US led war, no reaction would be against Pak
9. Afghan and Pak Taliban are totally distinct in their aims. Afghan Taliban are fighting a foreign occupation force and TTP is fighting against their own people
10. Point is not how many civilians killed by TTP or Drones. Both kill and encourage terror.
11. US might not be conducting drone attakcs unilaterlly in Musharaf era but now it is
12. Rant about Punjabi Talibans already answered above
13. No doubt some gulf states finance them but had Afghanistan not been playing a hostile role for Pakistan, they will never be able to fight Army
14. Even if giving Sharia courts in FATA does not end militancy, it will at least bring nation on same page and any operation will be more meaningful and successful as it happened in case of SWAT
15. US does not have anything at stake still it talks to Taliban. We must because this is our country and we can afford it to be victim of Chaos for so long
16. Actual Liberals of Pakistan are people like IK who are lebeled Taliban Khan by Liberals and Secular by Taliban :) and he first wants a dialogue and then any operation in case of failure
17. Liberals in the wolrd indeed mostly are truly Liberals. Liberals in Pak awake only when they have to criticize Islam, Pakistan or army
18. Already answered above
19. This WAS not our war. We forcefully made it ours and we can still isolate ourselves from it by staying away from US war and stopping drones
20. They do not want to destroy us indeed but they just want to keep us weak so that we are always on our knees in front of them
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