However, the so-called Taliban of Pakistan are mostly rogue and corrupt elements of society who are hiding behind false slogan of implementing the law of Shari’ah.

It has to be noted that Shari’ah was in effect implemented in Afhganistan under the Taliban rule and it was endorsed by the scholars of Pakistan and various Arab nations.

Also, the dynamics of Swat and Waziristan are quite different, if not exact parallel of each other. Waziristan is under threat of US drones as America believes it hosts freedom fighters supporting the resistance against US occupation of Afghanistan. When people of Wazirstan are droned, retaliation is natural which occurs against state of Pakistan as they believe we are supporting the US cause.

On the other hand the issue of Swat was highlighted and exploited by anti-Pakistan elements to engage Pakistan army in the area as well as to spread confusion, anarchy and mistrust amongts the public. Government of Pakistan while crushed the rogue elements in Swat, it has failed to reveal the handlers, and the supply chain to these miscreants. Unless this is done and a firm action is taken against them, the menace of terrorism can not be eleminated for sure.

Fully agree with you that the attacks made by TTP on Pakistani public are wrong and they seem to have lost the sight of the original objectives.

I am an Indian and not a supporter of Taliban, nor am I compatible with their principles.

However I want to make a few points,
An idealistic Taliban whose sole goal is to establish sharia, eliminate corruption and provide unbiased/ unsold justice to people is not a bad thing IF people of Pakhtunkhwa really want that. The big question is, whether Taliban is really that idealistic entity?

People of the rest of the Pakistan such as Punjab and Sindh obviously will not support even idealistic Taliban or even Shariat so obviously we are talking about having two different legal systems in one country. Though this might sound difficult but it is possible to some extent if people sit down and discuss what is possible and what is not possible.

To my knowledge even in India, certain laws about property and marriages are different for Hindus and Muslims, those for the latter being more in accordance with the Islamic sharia. So may be something like this can be worked out on provincial basis, without ofcourse undermining the authority of the central government in certain aspects.

Countries like Pakistan, India are multi cultural and multi ethnic. In our overzealous quest to forge a tight national integrity, sometimes we tend to ignore this critial difference and as a result we end up alienating our own people.

I am not arguing that action should not be taken against the crimes of TTP but I don’t support aerial bombardment on your own citizens, the collateral damage will hurt the common Pashtun and Swati more than TTP. This will actually feed the purpose of the fanatics. The temptations might be there to take a massive action and to show the people who is in charge but there is a danger that it will be problematic in the long term. This is a long and hard battle and there is no alternative to fighting it as such.

I write this a well wisher of Pakistan, its public in all provinces, a neutral observer and a good intentioned neighbor.

once the americans leave afghanistan, taliban will no longer attack pakistan they will focus their attention on retaking afghanistan.

taliban’s only objective is to establish sharia throughout pakhtunkhwa and get rid of the foreign powers. their clash with america came only because of osama bin ladin otherwise there was no problem.

taliban is sensing the winds of american withdrawal and they know it is a matter of time before the victory is theirs.

pakistan must stop aerial bombings and drone attacks from americans because this type of warfare on populated areas is purely a crime against humanity.