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Morning Open Thread: Pakistan Talks to the Taliban |
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Pakistan’s civilian government is already charting a markedly different course from Musharraf. For one thing, they’re making moves to start talking with the Taliban:
Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s prime minister, on Saturday urged the armed groups to renounce violence and offered to hold talks with those who give up arms and join the new democratic era.
The response?
Pakistan’s Taliban movement has welcomed an offer by the country’s prime minister to hold talks with them and has urged Islamabad to abandon the US-led “war on terror,” a spokesman for the movement has said.
Maulvi Omar said the announcement by the federal government to hold talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban would improve law and order.
There have been a growing number of suicide bombings in the past couple of months.
Omar told reporters at a public rally in Bajaur tribal district: “The talks announcement by government will have extremely positive impact. The federal government should immediately stop the war for US interests.”
So far at least, not the end of the world. Who knows whether it will work - but then again, the strategy up to the present has been a great way for everyone to beat their heads against a wall, so in a sense they can only go up from here.
Also, DHinMI points out that Pakistan’s new civilian government might actually try and catch Bin Laden. Why? Because unlike Musharraf, their aid from Washington won’t depend on not winning the “War on Terror.” They could catch the guy and still get the loot.
That’s assuming, of course, that the old cave-dweller isn’t dead.
But wait! I thought the U.S. and it’s partners didn’t talk to “terrorists”…What’s this?…An attempt to communicate, to reconcile differences, to find a permanent, long-term solution? What a novel idea!
Much of sins in muslim countries happen when they have democratic governments. The muslim nations need a good dose of autocratic secular regimes not democratically elected Islamic government. The Taliban was created when our darling Benazir Bhutto was the PM of Pakistan. Turkey is fast hurtling towards being an Islamic nation which will have technology to launch global Jihad and establish the Caliphate again. They need to be stopped else Europe will be on fire in less than 75 years from now.