Provincial Govt is responsible for Peace in Province against Violent Crimes Or General peace. Protection against organized idealogical armed movement falls under responsibility of National Defence . Blaming provincial govt is all but intellectual dishonesty aimed at achieving desired political goals nothing else
KPK unfortunately has become buffer zone between Punjab and Western borders. They are paying the price for it and getting blamed in return. Relative peace in Punjab has nothing to do with good Governance .
Provincial Govt is reponsible.
Peace in the province has everything to do with good governance. 20 Years back, the TTP issue was spread into Punjab. If i am not mistaken, the Swat administration failed and welcomed the Taliban to take over control and had the constitution replace with the Taliban law.
How KPK messed up here is through the federal govt of Imran Khan. When APS attack took place, the KPK govt was too busy protesting in Islamabad because they wanted to come into power in Federal. The fact that those terrorist and their movement of weapons in KPK all makes it a provincial issue, in how all that was allowed to take place.
Than Imran not only forgave Ehsanullah, he even negotiated a peace deal with TTP and Afghan Taliban. TTP has been eradicated, alot of their members were placed in jails. Afghan Taliban had been eradicated by the US. But than the Pakistani govt along with the ISI helped the Afghan taliban come to power, who than after coming into power released TTP soldiers from jails and than once again provided safe heave in the border areas from where these guys launch attacks into Pakistan.
The provinvial govt of KPK is reponsible because when they took power in federal, they allowed every kind stupid deal to take place which gave strength to TTP. The TTP group reformed and have started to launch attacks.
Saying that KPK is a buffer between Punjab and that Punjab has nothing to do with good governance is a poor comment.
Punjab has had it own set of issues. The police force did a wonderful job eradicating Taliban elements, Al qaeda madrassahs and reducing the shia suni conflict to the minimal. Punjab have had its share of radicals exist due to Zia ul haq. Infact, the army created another mess called TLP which is a problem in Punjab.
Terrorism was one of the biggest issues in Punjab, but the Sharif govt took proper control of it. One of the biggest policy the Sharifs made was the National Action Plan.
National Action Plan came into existence after KPK failed and allowed APS attack to take place. Under NAP,
NAP stated:
- Execution of convicted terrorists
- Establishment of military courts
- Action against banned outfits
- Regulation of madrassas
- Curbing hate speech and extremist material
- Reform of FATA
- Empowering NACTA
- Zero tolerance for militancy in Punjab
- Disarming all militias
- Combating terrorism financing
This came into power due to the 21st amendment in our constitution. This NAP was the reason that bought peace in to Punjab. This is an example of good governance, so nice try by making comments that good governance has done nothing in Punjab.
Guess why NAP died out? Because when PTI came into power they decided agianst relaunching NAP. NACTA became dormant, and than PTI did peace talks with TTP.