Let’s cut the crap, shall we? (II)

Letter December 21, 2014
We and the media need to stop calling TTP Pakistani Taliban — we should only call them what they are: terrorists.

KARACHI: I write in appreciation of Chris Cork’s excellent article. It contained a very strong and well-assembled argument. However, I would like to make Mr Cork one small request: could we not call the militants ‘Taliban’ at all because in Arabic ‘Talib’ means a seeker of knowledge, and we all can see that these people are nothing but terrorists and not seekers of any knowledge.

We and the media need to stop calling them Pakistani Taliban — we should only call them what they are: terrorists.

Rabia Aamir

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd,  2014.

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