DW44
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You're assuming that's IK's motive. So far, his actions suggest otherwise and good intentions don't mean squat unless backed by actions to match. As for the attacks, they did drop drastically after Sharif junior started sucking up to TTP. Maybe you weren't around back then but up until around 2008, there were two to three attacks per month. There's no denying that the figures dropped drastically though they obviously didn't stop entirely since there are many terrorist organizations active in the region, not just TTP and even TTP is an umbrella organization consisting of many smaller constituent groups that don't necessarily see eye to eye on everything.
Ah yes, the usual tried and tested "liberal corrupt media etc" argument, except it falls flat on it's face because there's no liberal electronic or social media in Pakistan and a grand total of one liberal publication in the print media so while this 'ohhhh big bad liberal bogieman' argument sells, it has little basis in fact considering how limited the space for liberal discourse is in this borderline fascist state that you are somehow an expert on despite living in the comfort of a secular state.Ignoring your 'falsafa' about PTI supporters, I think your perception/understanding of IK's politics is just an armchair critic (or knee jerk reaction) influenced by propaganda from self proclaimed liberal print, electronic and social media.
It's in fact you who reduce the notion of extremism and problem of terrorism to either-or equation by thinking that there is no other way of eliminating both except by force. People just don't become extremist or terrorist over night. There is always a history and background with political and social aspects. I won't go into detail about the Psychology (or science) of terrorism. If you are interested you can read a brief article by researchers from a land that is major instigator of extremism in the rest of the world in current times.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/11/terrorism.aspx
Coming back to IK's intention of handling extremism and terrorism, in my opinion there is no better solution for long term. If you care to listen his opinion or check the PTI's policy then you wouldn't be making fun of "funding madrassa with terrorists alumni"...
http://www.dawn.com/news/1266978
Whether PTI/IK achieve anything out of their policy is remained to be seen (hard to implement it across Pakistan without governing at national level). It is interesting that funding of madrassa for reforms is part of National Action Plan of which all parties including military is stake holder, yet it is only IK who is taliban khan and is power hungry.
...and you saw this hunger for power only because IK being opposition raises issues against gov, does protest and sit-ins? Or do you have any real evidence of his hunger? Was he power hungry between 1996 and 2013? If yes how?
While we're on the subject of lands that are major instigators of extermism around the world, I live in one and there's enough literature covering the causes of rising extremism in the Pakistani context. One of the main reasons is children being indoctrinated at an early age in schools and madrassas, something his government is actively involved in despite his flowery rhetoric about intersectarian harmony and blasphemy laws. The Dawn story you linked only quotes PTI officials and misses out the part where Sami ul Haq, whose party owns and operates the madrassa, refuted PTI's claims that they agreed to any reforms and made it clear in no uncertain terms that this grant does not buy the provincial government access to the day to day running of the madrassa. I suggest you read NAP because nowhere does it say that funding madrassas for reform is part of the plan. It simply says government to control and keep a check on madrassas, neither of which this grant accomplished. It also doesn't "remain to be seen" whether this produces results. This has been done before and the results are there for all to see. What's that they say about stupidity and expecting different results from the same thing?
