[Reader-list] Terrroism inside Pakistan, the epicentre of Global Terrorism

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Pictures and descriptions of SWAT valley show it to be exquisitely beautiful. It used to be the major tourist and honeymooning destination in Pakistan.
 
Pakistan's honeymoon with it's creation Taliban has run into trouble. Taliban and other such organisations created/promoted by Pakistan have turned to Islamic Terrorism.  Pakistan is being visited by and engulfed by its own sins. 
 
Irfan Husain writes in DAWN about the "Nightmare in Paradise". Swat incidentally is only 160 km from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan
 
EXTRACTS 
 
- It is a sad fact that while we Pakistanis are (rightly) incensed over the recent assault on Gaza, and other attacks on Muslims by non-Muslims, we choose to turn a blind eye by even worse Muslim-on-Muslim atrocities.

- Thus, most editorial writers, columnists and TV commentators reserve their fury and invective for western targets, while glossing over what Muslims are doing to their fellow Muslims. 
 
- In Swat, there have been grisly beheadings and public executions. Every evening, Shah Doran broadcasts names on the militant hit-list, presumably on Mullah Radio’s old FM frequency. Nearly 200 girls’ schools have been blown up or torched. Scores of video rental shops and hair-cutting establishments have been attacked and forced to shut down. Women dare not leave their homes, and 80,000 girls have been deprived of an education.
 
- If this situation has been allowed to develop in Swat, an integral part of the Frontier Province, and not a tribal area, imagine what things must be like in Waziristan and Mohmand agencies. Clearly, things are rapidly spinning out of control, and the government cannot establish its writ over large parts of the country.
 
Kshmendra