Dawn.com: by Hajra Mumtaz.
NOT so long ago, the radio was in the news for all the wrong reasons. That was the medium chosen by the militant leader Fazlullah, who became known as Mullah Radio, to spread his messages of hatred and divisiveness.
For a long time, he broadcast his venom and the state did little to try and stop it. And then, he and his band ended up in de facto control of Swat.
During Mullah Radio’s comparatively brief rule over the area, his men imposed their own extremist version of religion; government buildings and schools were destroyed, opponents or those labelled ‘immoral’ were flogged or beheaded, the bodies strung up at intersections.
Fazlullah and his men were pushed out of Swat by the Pakistan Army in 2009 (though they still intermittently launch cross-border incursions into Pakistan from their shelters in bordering Afghanistan provinces).
This summer, a spokesman told Reuters via telephone that the group’s aim was to retake Swat and bid for control over all of Pakistan, and then establish what they refer to as ‘Sharia law’. A taste of things to come, because the monster of militancy now has many heads and many strains of hatred feeding it.
Pakistani government from last three decade practicing full cooperation or tolerance to mullahism whatever shape they are in. Taliban are the most ugly reality of this policy. Call it corruption or stupidity of Pakistani leaders but in last thirty years Pakistan has reduced into total anarchy and chaose with terrarisim label to make it worse. While mullah is busy in convincing public and its stupid leaders that confrantion with America is the only way to achieve the old glory of Iqbal in his charming poetry. So far these evil mullahs are in drivers seat and driving the counntry to disaster.