MUSCAT, OMAN: This is with reference to Raza Rumi’s article “Those who attacked Kamra were not American, they are from among us” (August 20). All doubters and apologists of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have one thing in common. They do not overtly support the Taliban (maybe they do so at a subconscious level but no one can peep into their minds). They claim that the TTP is funded/sponsored/guided/hired, etc. by anti-Pakistan forces and agencies.
My simple question is what is stopping these people from advocating the ruthless elimination of these so-called foot soldiers/hired guns/misguided elements instead of concentrating on their paymasters only (if any)? Next time there is a robbery attempt in the house of a Taliban apologist and the person’s family is threatened and the whole house ransacked, please do not resist the intruders. Think on a ‘higher level’ and go out to find the gang leader of the bandits and teach him a lesson.
It is the height of intellectual bankruptcy and dishonesty that we keep getting hopeless arguments from Taliban apologists. As for the so-called ‘good Taliban’, show me a single statement by any Taliban office-holder disowning and condemning acts of mayhem and slaughter. If the ‘US-hired’ TTP spokesman is always jumping to own up to such attacks, including the killing of minorities, why do we never hear of any ‘good Taliban’ condemning such acts?
Hasan Mehmood
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2012.
