Pakistan must 'root out' terrorists fighting in 'name of Islam'

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It is time that Pakistan should make efforts to root out the menace of terrorism and militant groups like the Taliban that are fighting in the name of Islam, an editorial in a daily newspaper has said. According to the editorial in the Daily Times, plumbing new depths of barbarity, the militant Pakistani Taliban lined up 21 of the 23 Levies personnel they had kidnapped earlier in the week on a cricket pitch on Saturday and gunned them down in cold blood. The massacre is indicative of the deepening security crisis Pakistan is currently facing, it said. The paper also pointed out that the recurring security breaches are clear indications that the terrorists are ahead of the security agencies in terms of sophistication, technology, equipment and intelligence. According to the editorial, although these terrorists purportedly fight in the name of Islam, there is nothing Islamic about their ideology or methods. They peddle poisonous falsehoods and their narrow worldview to gain political power, the rest is obfuscatory sophistry, the editorial added. According to the report, the solution cannot ever be purely military. It pointed out that the country must root out the terrorist mindset that plagues the society through education that teaches critical thinking, poverty alleviation, and job creation. The country's courts and law enforcement agencies must have a no-holds-barred policy towards terrorists, catch them, convict them, and set desperately needed precedents that the terrorists can and will be brought to justice, the editorial added.