Tanvir Ahmad Khan
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 The Pakistani state is being assailed by more than one kind of violence which, if not curbed, can lead to irreversible consequences for it. There is terrorism linked to the country’s role of as a frontline state in the so-called global war on terror. Just as the recent attacks on a children’s school bus and a funeral unrelated to that war demonstrate the total absence of any moral restraints in the terrorist bands constituting the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the destruction caused at the Mehran base, the repeated incursions into Chitral and Dir from Afghanistan and the frequent raids on Pakistani check posts elsewhere reveal ambitions beyond the usual aim of spreading panic amongst the civilians.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 The Pakistani state is being assailed by more than one kind of violence which, if not curbed, can lead to irreversible consequences for it. There is terrorism linked to the country’s role of as a frontline state in the so-called global war on terror. Just as the recent attacks on a children’s school bus and a funeral unrelated to that war demonstrate the total absence of any moral restraints in the terrorist bands constituting the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the destruction caused at the Mehran base, the repeated incursions into Chitral and Dir from Afghanistan and the frequent raids on Pakistani check posts elsewhere reveal ambitions beyond the usual aim of spreading panic amongst the civilians.