[Reader-list] Taliban is the future

[yasir ~يا سر]

1. Hamid Gul is a cold warrior, with an islamist pov. always interesting to
hear. yet he and his views have been marginalized in pk. let us us say it is
the end of the zia era.

2. pk and afg are very different entities. while taliban are making a quiet
come back in afg, even they themselves are not supporting the pk-taliban as
this would sour their relations with pk. besides the pk-talibs are either
being massacred or disappearing to resurface at some point later, the moment
in northwest-pk. so this can be dicey for that region only ie fata. there is
no such problem for the rest of the country. foreign entities and money incl
china, russia, US, saudi, india, are all stoking the fires to thwart each
others' regional agendas in the border regions of baluchistan and nwfp/fata
- a fact of life at the moment. but the country seems to have regained some
agency of itself with upsurge in popular sentiment and pressure on govt
since the lawyers movement and the last elections. a good point for
negotiations with india for instance, to streamline our own common regional
agendas, which are overdue since at least partition, actually much before...

3. pk-taliban or their views, in fact islamist views are definitely on the
margin in pk at the moment. so i totally disagree with KK (who is writing
fron across the border wearing border-glasses), and agree with pawan, that
the common enemy are the islamists in afg/pk/and hardly so (ie totally
overblown) in india, where too, just like us, they love to make a circus out
of it. lets hope the common bonds are stronger than the hate, of which there
has been enough.

best, y