Peace Talk with Taliban Finished

PEACE TALKS WITH TALIBAN BUT NO RESULTS YET.

The first round of peace talks between Pakistani government and Taliban committee have finished now. The Taliban committee has told the media that the talks went well but the increase in suicide attacks and the target killings of civilians and security personnel paint a gloomy and different pictures.

The Pakistani government and Taliban apologists have always claimed that the talks are for peace within the country. Really? Were the suicide attacks on polio workers and hand grenades being hurled at a cinema in Peshawar for peace? Do Pakistanis need that kind of peace? The Taliban disowned and condemned the attacks, apparently to kill two birds with one stone; to continue the talks process only in name so as to be protected from US drones and kill those who were ever involved in any action against them. This provided every opportunity to Taliban apologists to blame the attacks on a third force.

There has been no US drone strike or the targeting of any notorious terrorist figure during the talks so far. Then why are civilians and security personnel frequently being attacked? Taliban apologists have no answer to this. The Taliban has ultimately lost patience and has claimed suicide attack in Karachi on day before yesterday. Taliban apologists will certainly not be affected by this confession as their conscience has been dead a long time. They love their life and this world so much that they cannot even blame the terrorists for pushing the so-called talks towards failure.

There have surfaced, through the Pakistani and the foreign media, the three preconditions by the Taliban for the talks. These conditions if met would render the sacrifices of 50 thousand civilians and thousands of security personnel in the war on terror wasted leaving this country with a Taliban proposed government.

These are just the preconditions at the very onset of the talks. It is believed that there are more than four thousand Taliban inmates in Pakistani prisons. Suppose they are all released but the talks fail, would our security forces be able to catch them again/ have we ever contemplated how the state of Pakistan will handle the situation if half of them then return as suicide bombers/ this time the infamous Lal Mosque cleric a Maulana threatened the state of Pakistan when he said that the Taliban has 500 female suicide bombers in a bid to have all the Taliban conditions met.

Talk of peace with these preconditions never produce results. Unproductive Indo-Pak  talks are a glaring example. The Taliban preconditions for the talks portray the same picture. The Taliban preconditions are nothing more than an effort to revive and strengthen the militant organization.

The word “Pakistan” means the land of pure people. Are the terrorists the pure people? The terrorists brand of religion and their acts are anti-pakistan and anti Islamic. Pakistan and the terrorists cannot coexist. Pakistan has no place for the terrorists. The Taliban preconditions for the talks imply that they want their demands fulfilled by force and a on every level. The Pakistani government’s  so called peace talks  initiative is a desirous experiment and sets a precedent that the state will hold talks with those forces that are capable of killing maximum civilians and security personnel. It is time that the federal government and Taliban apologists decide whether they want Pakistan to be the land of the pure or the land of the terrorists.