Pakistan: Amnesty to the terrorists

PTI Chairman Imran Khan has been advocating talks with terrorists from the very start when these enemies of humanity started their horrendous activities. Recently he has added the example of Nelsen Mandela\\\'s reconciliation policy to strengthen his argument for peace dialogue with the Taliban. He plans to present the reconciliation concept at the All Parties Conference (APC). All the leaders invited to APC also, it seems, are bent upon devising ways and means to start talks with the terrorists. Instead of raising false hopes, the politicians gathering at the conference should started thinking of how to annihilate the Taliban to the last one of them because they will not give up killing us; unless, they are completely wiped out and unless they completely lose hope of winning the war against the State of Pakistan. Imran Khan also has a theory that all Taliban are not bad; some of them are good. The next he may differentiate between good and bad serial killers or mass murderers. The Truth and National Reconciliation Commission was formed by Nelson Mandela when the minority white racist population, which tried to rule South Africa, was totally subdued; when they had no power or the will left to practice racism and were totally at the mercy of the majority. Even then it was not a blanket-immunity to the white racists. The reconciliation was more for the victims to come out and narrate the cruelties inflicted upon them by the white supremacists. The perpetrators were only allowed to show repentance and apply for amnesty and not just that but it was left to the commission to accept their apologies. Will Imran Khan guarantee that the Taliban will come before a commission and repent in public and ask for forgiveness for their unforgivable crimes. The PTI chairman may not be aware but it is reported, that many Taliban have left their safe havens in North and South Waziristan and are headed towards Karachi to retaliate against the ongoing targeted operations in that city. The Taliban arriving in Karachi will be there to reinforce their terrorist comrades and thwart the efforts to bring peace in the mega city. They already have control of some areas in the city and have their own courts in the places under their sway. While the target killers and criminals want to make the government ineffective so that they can have a free hand to commit crimes, the Taliban want to overrun the law enforcing forces and form their undisputed government in Karachi. They want to kill this nation, God forbid, by strangling its financial hub. PTI, JUI-F, JUI-S, JI, ANP and PML-N leaders may think that Taliban are our misguided brother citizens or invincible. But those who think this way are wrong and are misguiding the nation. The terrorists have raised arms against the state of Pakistan and as such have lost all the rights citizens have in this country. They are not just armed enemies but such armed enemies who will show no mercy not even as much mercy as would the armed forces of our worst enemy state. Also, the terrorists are not unbeatable; They maybe fighting with guerrilla tactics but they are not the guerrilla fighter with popular support. If they face defeat there will be none among the public who would want to hide them. The terrorists gained strength in the tribal areas because they entered there and they gained the sympathies of the tribes on the pretext of establishing strongholds and to continue fighting foreign forces from there. They later overwhelmed the local tribes with treachery and modern weapons. Later to destroy the fabric of the tribal society, they declared the maliks and sardars as US agents and killed them. It is wrong even to talk of the government giving amnesty to rebels unless those challenging our sovereignty, Constitution and way of life are completely subdued by force, for force is the only language they understand. The Pakistani Taliban are out to destroy us. They have struck our civilian and military installations. They are killing our innocent children, women and men, sick, old and soldiers. Presently, they are not only not subdued but, it seems, they think they can destroy Pakistan, or at least overthrow the present democratic system and enforce their own barbaric regime. Even if we barter with a general amnesty for peace with Taliban, it will encourage other groups of taking up arms against the state. Every insurgent group will think that in the end it well get amnesty A complete resolve to kill each and everyone of the terrorist have never been shown by the government. Our forces have never been completely out to get them, except in Swat and we were successful there. The idea of ending the conflict through negations has always held the hand of our forces from going all out against them and very relentlessly. e. As always, our troops will be double-minded with the talk of talks with Taliban in the APC. The Nawaz government should end this farce of negotiation for peace and declare an all out war against the Taliban inside Pakistan territory.