Breeding fundamentalists
Posted : July 18, 2007 at 6:29 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 37 people in Pakistan on Thursday, as a militant backlash intensified following the army’s storming of radical mosque in Islamabad earlier this month. A wave of bomb attacks since a siege and assault on the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque complex, a militant stronghold in the capital, has swept across Pakistan, killing more than 160
- Two suicide attacks kill 37 in Pakistan
As a teenager (if not even before that), there was not a day that would go by when I would not hear stories of terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), India, a state over which India and Pakistan has already fought more wars than I would like to count. Locals were targeted, mostly Hindus. India maintained it was a proxy war that Pakistan was waging via these Islamic fundamentalists who were being trained by the ISI in Pakistan. Pakistan denied it at every level, including at UN, with much success. United States had plenty of evidence to press on Pakistan to discourage breeding of terrorists on its soil, but it chose to stay neutral (read, it did nothing). This was in the 1980s and 1990s, way before 9/11. This was way before the people of this country and the Western world even knew (much less cared) about the wrath of terrorism, except perhaps in the context of Israel.
Well, as I read more and more incidents of terrorism and violence directed at innocent Pakistanis, I cannot help but be reminded of the saying - “What goes around, comes around”
Someone needs to go into NW Frontier Province of Pakistan and settle this once and for all.
- Anand
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