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ISLAMABAD: Some call them an ideologically motivated lot, some consider them as a bunch of misguided people working at the behest of hostile foreign agencies. Then there are others who simply take them as terrorists, while the fact on ground today is that the TTP has recently earned the status of a stakeholder parallel to the Government of Pakistan. 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By and large, they achieved that objective.In the next phase, while the people were anticipating a sigh of relief with the change of government, the TTP unleashed an unabated spate of major terrorist incidents during first sixty days of the new government to shatter the will of the political leadership as part of the envisaged plan. Apparently, the TTP strategy paid off, a manifestation of which we saw in buckling down of the PM to threats against execution of the convicted terrorists. 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The fact is that we as a nation have never fought any war with the TTP, though clean-up operations were conducted here and there by the Army wherein it succeeded in evicting them but there were fewer casualties as most of them moved to other areas to regroup later. The TTP was by and large perceived to comprise our own people and dealt with accordingly, at times Army paying a very heavy cost in terms of soldiers’ lives. If the political leadership,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url],[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url], fully backed by the nation, decides to root out terrorism through the use of all instruments, including force, the environment may not remain so cozy for those operating against Pakistan’s interests.Linked with above, there is a need to develop a clear understanding of the nature of threat Pakistan faces today. For last so many years, we have remainedembroiled in the controversies of good and bad Taliban and, as such, were never clear and still undecided on how to deal with those who directly or indirectly threaten Pakistan’s existence. While we may not challenge the legitimacy of struggle by the Afghan Taliban to oust the foreign forces from their land,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler down jackets[/url], we should also not ascribe to the idea that they are our assets or that Afghanistan provides us strategic depth. Pakistan is a nuclear power and its strategic depth lies in internal stability and economic viability. As such, any entity or non-state actor which strives for Pakistan’s instability must be taken as enemy number 1 and promptly taken to task.The political leadership must also have a clear understanding of the nature of war being waged these days, whereby, it has become a creeping phenomenon with use of militancy as one of its manifestations. It must remain cognizant of the fact some factions of the TTP may be playing in the hands of our adversaries and wouldendeavour to stall the peace process, objective being to continue to bleed Pakistan. In such an environment, the government should not only include military establishment as a stake-holder in the negotiations, but also give due weight to their viewpoint. It is also imperative because ultimately it is the troops on ground that would mainly face the consequences of any failings on the part of government at the negotiating table.
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