Source: The Economist
THE swaggering leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP or, loosely, the Pakistani Taliban) Hakimullah Mehsud, met a violent end at his lavish home in Pakistan’s remote northern tribal areas on November 1st. Just like his predecessor and clansman, Baitullah Mehsud, he died in a missile strike from an American drone. He had helped transform the terrorist outfit from being simply a thorn in Pakistan’s side. He once sent an al-Qaeda triple agent back to his CIA handlers as a suicide bomber. The resulting attack on a base in eastern Afghanistan in 2009 killed seven CIA officers. The following year Mr Mehsud sponsored a bombing in New York’s Times Square, thankfully botched. The United States had reason to keep going after a man who for so long seemed to cheat the drones.
“The end of this latest peace initiative means that Mr Khan can continue noisily to insist that talks are “the only option”.
But its an empty slogan just to divert the attention of KPK people from routine problems. Imran Khan of PTI is just the other side of Pakistani obsolete coin. His tall claims for change were also drum beats. Root cause of Pakistani problem is mixing of state affairs with religion. As long both are not separated nothing will change in Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan co-operating on the religious front, together, could easily do away with bad laws in Pakistan.
But question is who is funding these criminals and bandits. His home where he was staying during attack, is classified as the most expensive and luxurious abode in the region. Same person has been involved in breaking the prisons in KPK and shifting those bandits to Saudi MI in Syria war.
But the most dangerous aspect pf whole game is that Jamat-e-Islami and Imran Khan politics is leading the country towards complete ethnic and sectarian civil war in Pakistan. God forbid, Is fall of Islamabad approaching?