Pakistan is facing the
phenomenon of terrorism from last 12 years, and its effects are getting severe
day by day. Now a days the most activist group of militants is Tehrik-e-Taliban
Pakistan(TTP) an umbrella organization of various militant groups based in the
northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in
Pakistan. Most, but not all, Pakistani Taliban groups coalesce under the TTP.
If we see the roots of the TTP we came to know that TTP as an organization began
in 2002 when the Pakistani military conducted incursions into the tribal areas
to originally combat foreign (Afghan, Arab and Central Asian) militants fleeing
from the war in Afghanistan into the neighboring tribal areas of Pakistan. A
2004 article by the BBC explains:
The military offensive had been the part of overall war against al-Qaeda. Since
the start of the operation, the Pakistani military authorities have firmly
established that a large number of Uzbek, Chechen and Arab militants were in the
area. It was in July 2002 that Pakistani troops, for the first time in 55 years,
entered the Tirah Valley in Khyber tribal agency. Soon they were in Shawal
valley of North Waziristan, and later in South Waziristan. ... This was made
possible after long negotiations with various tribes, who reluctantly agreed to
allow the military's presence on the assurance that it would bring in funds and
development work. But once the military action started in South Waziristan a
number of Waziri sub-tribes took it as an attempt to subjugate them. Attempts to
persuade them into handing over the foreign militants failed, and with an
apparently mishandling by the authorities, the security campaign against
suspected al-Qaeda militants turned into an undeclared war between the Pakistani
military and the rebel tribesmen.
After that the government of Pakistan changed from PPPP to PMLn. Now in the
starting of 2014, The administration of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who came in
to power last year encouraging to find a negotiated peace with the Taliban, and
still he has been trying to participate the group in talks. But as the talks
broke down due to the activity of TTP in which they killed 23 FC persons with
brutality and TTP admitted that at the same week. The decision came hours after,
Pakistani fighter jets had bombed suspected Taliban hideouts in a tribal area on
the Afghan border, killing at least 15 militants. The air strikes may herald a
broader military offensive in North Waziristan, a region where many armed groups
are based. The air strikes launched in the morning also came just hours after
Pakistan's army declared more than 100 soldiers had been killed by Taliban
fighters in the past five months, a rare admission of mass casualties. After air
strike of PAK both participants of negotiations draw back there comities so that
peace talks brakes again.
The current situation demands that TTP should have to show flexibility and
should stop killing innocent Muslims of Pakistan, Which is an Islamic Republic
country. I suggest TTP, if they realize that they have enough support from
public of Pakistan, then they should be the part of the democratic process in
Pakistan to implement their ideology.
Being a nation we are suffering from many social and ethical issues .Our
condition is this, we even don’t want to bear another cast, other religion and
ourselves as well. In current situation I think both parties must restart
negotiations and stop war, bomb blast and killing of innocent people. Pakistan
government must try to restart peace talks.
We have to make a positive, mature behavior and should think as a Nation. We
must have to give respect other religions, sects, castes and should promote
interfaith harmony.