Operation Ghazab Lil Haq (Pakistan - Afghanistan War)

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

That's even more sad, all that mambo jumbo and the warrior race of KPK is scared of TTP, which they can eliminate if they work with security forces and IK haven't tried to resettle these cut throats back in KPK.

Don't bring your racism here so. It's the warrior race of KP that's doing the bulk of the fight in KP and Balochistan even. Whether that's the FC or the police. Faxing down Afghanistan's vanguard. While ANP, PPP and army cut a deal with TTP PMLN n 2007-8, While PTI wants to cut a deal with TTP, PMLN cut a deal with Al Qaeda for Punjab. With Katchay k daku

And it's even worse to cut deals with India. The mitahi exchanges, the circus at wagah. The aman ka tamasha. The Bollywood and cultural exchanges. The betrayal at kargil. The refusal to go to Kashmir in 48.

You and your tribe aren't anything special. Is hamam main sab nange hain. This isn't your amreeka. There is no need to racialize everything.

 

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

This is what happens when ethnicity and political loyalty are placed ahead of the country. TTP has murdered more Pashtuns than anyone else in recent history, yet some people still reserve all their anger for the state while making excuses for the very terrorists slaughtering their own people.

Tribal elders were beheaded, markets were bombed and entire communities were terrorised, but there was never the same outrage or resistance against TTP. A society cannot defeat an enemy it is still unwilling to clearly identify and confront. At some point, KPK society also has to look inward and ask why these narratives continue to find space.

The answer is simple. The establishment ignores those who were against TTP and coddled TTP.

I am from Dera Ismail Khan. My tribe shed a matric ton of blood at jandola (which acts as a pass between settled areas and Waziristan) to keep TTP at bay in 2000s/2010s. From letting Tank and Dikhan becoming the next swat.

The state repaid in an effort to appease families of TTP aka PTM, removed all checkpoints between Waziristan and DIKHAN and tank in 2018 onwards. Now, everything in the two districts is ablaze.

Every an Lashkar elder was either assassinated or forced to flee between 2016-19.

How do YOU now convince the locals to act against TTP when everyone knows what the state does to them after.

The weapon of the TTP is terror. It's effective at using that weapon. The weapon of any state is legitimacy of itself and it's policies. It has no legitimacy for anyone in the province and it's policies change like sun in the sky throughout the day.

The state chose PTM and by extension TTP over the people that helped it. It's paying for that choice and the people that helped it are dead.

This is from 2020

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2018