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| Nawaz Sharif is Hamlet like helpless and indecisive in front of Tehrik-i-Taliban | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 8: To act or not to act against terrorists, especially against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is the question that bothers Nawaz Sharif led Government in Pakistan. Infact Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has become as helpless as Hamlet who remained indecisive before taking the final plunge.
Nawaz Sharif's state of mind resembles Hamlet who had said "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles. And by opposing them end them.' And the latest reports from Islamabad reveal that Nawaz Sharif led Government has decided to give another chance to dialogue and in this connection the Government was setting up a state committee to hold direct talks with the Taliban next week in a bid to accelerate the peace process.
Dialogue aimed at ending the Pakistani Taliban's seven-year insurgency, which has claimed thousands of lives, resumed on Wednesday following a two-week suspension after the militants killed 23 kidnapped soldiers. The military retaliated with a series of air strikes that it said killed more than 100 militants, and the Taliban last weekend announced a month-long ceasefire.
Islamabad has been rocked and rattled by series of bomb explosions and suicide attacks by the TTP activists in recent months in which over 130 people, most of them security personnel, were killed. And Nawaz Sharif rightly opted for reopening the channels of dialogue with the TTP leadership for which a committee was constituted.
Despite the fact that a couple of meetings were held but these meetings proved resultless. And the Government was forced to suspend talks when the TTP claimed responsibility for a number of deadly attacks on the Army and the security forces.
The Pakistan Army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, has rightly entrusted the task of deciding whether military operations, including the air strikes, against the TTP are to continue or be suspended so as to motivate the terrorist group to come forward for talks. The Corps Commanders are to decide whether to continue or halt its surgical strikes against Taliban hideouts in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Both Nawaz Sharif and the top Army authorities favour buying peace with the TTP. At the same time Prime Minister and the top Army functionaries are aware of the resentment in the opposition camp over the deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan which is responsible for tardy economic growth.
Opposition leader in the National Assembly and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) senior member Syed Khursheed Shah has questioned the rationale behind talks with Taliban.
Shah has said that the deteriorating law and order situation across the country was playing havoc with the national economy.
He wants the Nawaz Sharif led Government to focus all its attention to this core issue because until and unless the Government does not overcome this menace, country's economy cannot be strengthened.
The opposition leader asked whether the Government still wanted talks with the militants after the on-going incidents of terrorism because after these terrorists' strikes dialogue would not be of any benefit.
But the top Army functionaries do not want its men to get killed in the event of an offensive launched against the TTP. Hence they too want the dialogue process to succeed. And this is what exactly Nawaz Sharif has in his mind. He does not want to annoy or provoke the TTP or other terrorist groups which may escalate security and political instability in Pakistan.
While Islamabad needs to concentrate on the issue related to tackling the menace of terror it seems to waste its resources and energy on needling India and on interfering in the internal affairs of India. The amount of material and moral support militants received from Pakistani agencies is worrying New Delhi.
The latest offensive from Islamabad has come in the shape of its support to those Kashmiri students who had been punished by the Vice-Chancellor of a medical college in Meerut on charge of cheering winning Pakistani cricket team. Pakistan has expressed its support for Kashmiri students expelled for supporting Pakistan during a recent Asia Cup match against India. A Foreign Office spokesman has expressed regret over actions taken against the students in India. Saying "Our hearts and educational institutions are open for Kashmiri students." |
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