Just three months ago I was arguing against the army action in FATA. Whereas liberal or moderates even from the KPK wanted an Army action. No, I told you so here. It is about people forgetting Pakistan Armys track record. Pakistan Army has managed to botch every campaign called itself to launch. From East Pakistan to Balochistan, the Army has left only dead civilians bodies behind. Trusting the Army to undertake the operation in FATA was just not prudent. First thing first. Just recollect that the Army was supposed to conduct ops against the terrorists, the Army nurtured. What were the chances of success in there? Second, undertaking action against its ideological brothers, ensured that no real harm would come to them. Only the fringe saw the army wrath. The core of the terrorists still untouched. The Armys job was to weed out criminals from the populated areas. Instead, the army removed the residents. The folks who needed the terrorists evicted out of the residential areas are homeless. The Army ejected and made people homeless as it understood the need to make a bigger story. The ops succeeded in burying the real story. Now IDPs are the story. The Army claims it has killed 500 odd criminals. The claim begs the question: what happened to over 25k criminals that infested that area? Now after less than two months of ops, the army is claiming victory. With the victory so easy, shouldnt we ask the question: why the Army waited over a decade to launch the ops? There were speculations in the past that Army is not equipped to handle terrorists in that terrain. The Army pleaded with the US that it needed more funds and more training to fight a guerrilla warfare expected in FATA. The planted stories led the International community and Pakistanis to believe that any action might trigger a revolt in the army. None of that happened. One retired General blamed the cautiousness of the previous COAS. That was a diversion from the bare-naked fact that the Army never intended to take action in the terrorists den. The Army made sure that IDPs story hides the real story that the Army is not doing anything in FATA except destroying residential areas. What do we have on hands? About a million IDPs pushed out to Punjab and Sindh so they never go back to their homes. Internally, the Army raising up a shitstorm using civilian surrogates from Imran to Gujarat Chaudhries and the Mullah Qadri.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:26:22 +0000
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