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A man wounded in America's most recent drone attack on Pakistan, in

Orakzai Agency: While about 18 suspected terrorists were killed in that

attack, over 20 innocents were murdered by terrorists the same day.

 

 

U.S. Drones are an Evil, but Terrorists are Worse (The Frontier Post, Pakistan)

 

"Our nation is in the throes of a vicious, multifaceted battle against terrorism. More appallingly, the government does not appear particularly moved to act against the menace, which poses the most bald-faced existential threat to the country. Indeed, by every measure, terrorism is running riot across the land. And yet our rulers live in a dream world, behaving as if peace has broken out. ... There is no debate: Terrorist outfits have established their lairs and ensconced their sleeper cells deep in the nation's urban centers."

 

EDITORIAL

 

October 15, 2012

 

Pakistan – The Frontier Post – Original Article (English)

http://www.worldmeets.us/images/Orakzai-agency-text_map.pngWe still don't know if all 18 people killed in Thursday's drone attack on Orakzai were militants, or whether innocent noncombatants were included. What we do know is that the 20 other people killed by terrorists that day were all innocent. Eleven, including two children, lost their precious lives in a remote-controlled bomb blast in a market in Sibi, Balochistan. Twenty-six others were wounded. Eight others were murdered in twin blasts at an Orakzai Agency market that injured another 22. And on a construction site in Nowshera, one laborer died when an innocuous looking package exploded on touch.

 

This is just a random tabulation of the terrorist toll exacted on innocent civilians in a single day. More careful scrutiny would certainly bring out the horror this inflicts on our citizens. Furthermore, this tabulation excludes the mayhem being wrought in Karachi, where even on a normal day, the toll runs into no less than a half dozen lives. Indeed, by every measure, terrorism is running riot across the land. And yet our rulers live in a dream world, behaving as if peace has broken out, and whatever problem there is can be swished away with a lot of brave talk.

 

They cannot, they squawk, be browbeaten by terrorists. So as these vile terrorist characters inflict death and injury with abandon on unsuspecting citizens, our rulers from their fortified havens vow that they won't bow down before them. Neither do they appear fully alive to the daunting reality: our nation is in the throes of a vicious, multifaceted battle against terrorism. More appallingly, they do not appear particularly moved to act against this menace, which poses the most bald-faced existential threat to the country. They give absolutely no sense of being aware that if containment is arduous, elimination will be all the more difficult. In fact, it will infinitely multiply if not countered with a hard-nosed strategy and powerful action.

 

Verily, they act as if they have terrorism contained, But the truth is that they aren't even half done containing the terrorist menace, and its elimination remains far very off. But the most stupefying element here has been the behavior of provincial administrators. They have a critical role in containing and eliminating terrorism. Yet they behave as if they were divorced from this fight, which they seem to think is fought exclusively by federal authorities, especially the army and intelligence services. In the furtherance of this pretence, they are helped greatly by the commentators, security analysts, civil society and the chattering classes, which perpetually take these agencies to the mat for the terrorist surge.

 

There is no debate: we are in the tight and painful grip of urban terrorism. Terrorist outfits have established their lairs and ensconced their sleeper cells deep in the nation's urban centers. On top of foreign funding and cash raised by robbery and kidnap for ransom, not to mention urban gunrunning, the terrorists have melded with the urban underworld. These outlawed extremist outfits operate openly in urban centers - some under new banners, propagating their message of hate and their evil trade in bloodletting without official hindrance.

 

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People try and help a man injured by a bomb that went off in Sibi,

Pakistan. Eleven people were killed and 26 wounded, Oct. 12.

 

 

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Since provincial administrations exercise the most influence in their domains on the state security apparatus, it is they who must come down hardest on the vicious paraphernalia of urban terrorism and finish it off. But visibly, they aren't doing so. They haven't deployed their Criminal Investigation Departments to detect liars and terrorist sleeper cells and watch out for banned groups - even though CIDs are supposed to be well positioned to do so, thanks to their presence all the way down to the local union and the tehsil level [local village level]. During the colonial era, local CIDs made up the backbone of Britain's security network, and it was the Punjab CID that unearthed the aborted attempt on the part of Hindu fanatics to assassinate Quaid-e-Azam during the celebratory Independence Day rally in Karachi.

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[Editor's Note: Quaid-e-Azam (meaning "great leader") was Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan. There seems to be no record of the above assassination attempt. But an attempt on Jinnah's life did take place in his home in Bombay India in 1943. The man who intended to kill him was a member of the Khaksars, a social movement established in 1941 to free India of British rule and establish a Hindu-Muslim government].

 

At least now, provincial administrators will have no choice but to join the effort to curb and vigorously crush terrorism. The monstrosity is lethally on the upswing, so tomorrow will be too late.

 

 

SEE ALSO ON THIS:

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Guardian, U.K.: U.S. Suspends Joint Military Operations with Afghan Forces

Telegraph, U.K.: Taliban Hit U.S.- U.K. Afghan Base; 'Miss' Prince Harry

The Independent, U.K.: Obama's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation in 'Tatters'

Frontier Post, Pakistan: Obama's Drone War a PR Disaster for America

Der Spiegel, Germany: President of Dissapointment: How Obama Failed to Deliver

Frontier Post, Pakistan: Panetta Spills Beans: U.S. Handing Afghanistan to India

Telegraph, India: Delhi Wary of Bay of Bengal Becoming 'American Lake'

Le Figaro, France: Pakistan Has its Reasons for Acting Like a 'Double Dealer'

Le Monde, France: Pakistan and America: Preparing for a Timely ‘Divorce’

The Frontier Post, Pakistan: U.S. Withdrawal Plans 'Spell Doom' for Pakistan

FARS News, Iran: Revolutionary Guards Display Downed American Drone
La Jornada, Mexico:
Senators and U.S. Drones: What Else are They Hiding?
The Nation, Pakistan: Downing American Drones: Iran Shows Pakistan the Way
Der Spiegel, Germany: Obama's Plan Reignites German Withdrawal Debate
Asia Times, Hong Kong: Obama 'Puts the Heat' on Pakistan
Telegraph, U.K.: Osama bin Laden hiding place visited by Taliban
Global Times, China: Western Criticism of Pakistan is Wrongheaded and Unfair
La Jornada, Mexico: Afghan Official Asserts: 'Osama Blew Himself Up'
Tehran Times, Iraq: West Uses bin Laden's Death to Distract from Bahrain Atrocities
Diario Decuyo, Argentina: Bin Laden's Death is a 'Call to Arms' for the World's Clergy
El Pais, Spain: After bin Laden: West Must Reflect on Methods of Self-Defense
News, Switzerland: The Pope and the Terrorist: Two Misguided Beatifications
Tagesspiegel, Germany: Osama Photo Issue - Obama's Morally Superior to Bush
The Nation, Pakistan: Afghan Official Asserts: 'Osama Blew Himself Up'
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Finally, It's Beginning of the End for al-Qaeda
Al-Seyassah, Kuwait: Osama Now Being Licked by the 'Hottest Flames in Hell'
Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, France: Osama's Photo: 'The Impossible Truth'
Der Spiegel, Germany: Donald Trump and the 2012 'Campaign of Lunacy'
Excelsior, Mexico: Obama Quiets 'Right-Wing Witch Hunters' ... for Now
Izvestia, Russia: Osama bin Laden: From Abbottabad to Hollywood
Frontier Post, Pakistan: U.S. Raid Exposes Pakistan's 'Unnerving Vulnerability'
Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia: Osama Died, But those Who Gain from Terror War Live
Dar al-Hayat, Saudi Arabia: Osama and His Whole Way of Thinking - are Dead
Daily Jang, Pakistan: Operation Against Osama Spells Trouble for Pakistan
Kayhan, Islamic Republic of Iran: Obama Seeks to 'Vindicate Bush'
Outlook Afghanistan: U.S. Must Pursue Mullah Omar as it did bin Laden
Pak Tribune, Pakistan: Senators Call U.S. Operation a Breach of Sovereignty
Frontier Post, Pakistan: Osama Episode Puts Safety of Nuke Assets in Peril

The Nation, Pakistan: Pakistanis will React Badly to Reopening NATO Routes

Le Monde, France: Pakistan and America: Preparing for a Timely ‘Divorce’

Frontier Post, Pakistan: Whistleblower Unravels America’s Afghan ‘Hoax’
FARS News, Iran: Revolutionary Guards Display Downed American Drone
La Jornada, Mexico:
Senators and U.S. Drones: What Else are They Hiding?
The Nation, Pakistan: Downing American Drones: Iran Shows Pakistan the Way
The Nation, Pakistan: Time for Pakistan to Down America's 'Bionic Dragons'
The Nation, Pakistan:
Cost of Friendship with America is Far Too High
The Nation, Pakistan:
'Sorry' Won't Wash Away NATO Crimes in Pakistan
The Daily Jang, Pakistan: Is Washington Behind Pakistan's 'Memogate'?
The Frontier Post, Pakistan: U.S. Withdrawal Plans 'Spell Doom' for Pakistan

 

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