I am surprised the parallels we have to bengal. We use to say the same
We can and should say the same.
If politics and party agenda mean more to people than the unity of the country then what can one say. I am certainly sorry that some people feel this way.
There isn't a single person who would have supported MQM had they said "because the state is carrying out Operation Clean-up against us, we will join hands with India."
Let's apply uniform principles when thinking about Pakistan. I firmly believe that the state should not push any ethnicity to the brink, but if the mass murder is being committed by Afghan citizens and their supporters abetted by the Taliban in Kabul/Kandahar, why the hesitation to go after these actors in a united manner with one voice?
I will grant our politics are dismal and there is very little maturity shown by either side (this includes the Establishment too), however, we have tashkeels and suicide bombers entering from Afghanistan and people have confusion about whether or not we should go after them.
Let's have clarity of thought on this fitna. Just because the Taliban go easy on PTI, that does not mean they should be given a free pass by the party supporters. As I have maintained, I can guarantee that if things continued, Taliban would have certainly turned their guns against PTI as well just like they did against the ANP (an avowedly secular, but pro Pakhtun rights party).