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.
