Stop Twittering - Fight or Succumb
Earlier I had posted Who killed the Baloch leaders? by Qurat ul ain Siddiqui. More on this saga here .
This should raise alarms. Will it? This is extra-judicial killings - by state organs. The last time it happened under Benazir and Sharif Governments, the agencies got emboldened and thousands of Baluchis and Muhajirs died.
Earlier in the 70s, the same agencies were involved in what was then East Pakistan.
A fool learns from his mistakes. An idiot does not.
We seem to be bent upon endlessly repeating mistakes. Either that, or the agencies are a power unto themselves and are a state within state and cannot be controlled.
The key question to ask is - 'who exercises control over these agencies and how effective is their control?'
The concern of our MaiBaap is not displaced. They urge effective control over this behemoth (the Agencies) as much for their benefit as for ours.
The impotency of both the civilian and military leadership to rein them in is bad omen.
I have deliberately included the Army in this equation too. I do not think the Faujis want to go and kill in Mumbai. But their impotency to control the renegades in the Agencies does not augur well for their control of the Bomb in Western minds.
Digression: you and I - the twittering generation is doomed also. We can protest, scream, shout, yell, write, update.
Meanwhile, ill-educated and uneducated armed people with beards displace the state and impose their writ.
Is there a lesson in above?
Yes, this a duel to finish. In this duel our opponent has picked up Kalashnikiovs, rocket launchers and assault weapons. They are also adept in using the media - main stream and otherwise.
The keyboard warriors stand no chance. If we want to wrest power from the upstarts, we should be prepared to go to their battlefields and fight them with all means necessary - in the fields, in the valleys and in the media.
This should not be a solitary action of us vs. them. This is not the wild west where gunmen can duel it out.
We should also put pressure on the sitting governments to allay citizen's fears and do more to provide basic amenities - life, liberty, justice, food, shelter on an urgent basis.
It is the failure of the central and provincial governments to provide these basic amenities of life to its citizens that has turned the tide of civilian support for this misguided Taliban.
A victory on the ground will only be possible if, after the fight, the centre does not abandon them again.
Are we, the twittering chatteratis, willing to take up the challenge?
Failure to do so will mean stop shaving. And worse, bowing down to their gods.
This should raise alarms. Will it? This is extra-judicial killings - by state organs. The last time it happened under Benazir and Sharif Governments, the agencies got emboldened and thousands of Baluchis and Muhajirs died.
Earlier in the 70s, the same agencies were involved in what was then East Pakistan.
A fool learns from his mistakes. An idiot does not.
We seem to be bent upon endlessly repeating mistakes. Either that, or the agencies are a power unto themselves and are a state within state and cannot be controlled.
The key question to ask is - 'who exercises control over these agencies and how effective is their control?'
The concern of our MaiBaap is not displaced. They urge effective control over this behemoth (the Agencies) as much for their benefit as for ours.
The impotency of both the civilian and military leadership to rein them in is bad omen.
I have deliberately included the Army in this equation too. I do not think the Faujis want to go and kill in Mumbai. But their impotency to control the renegades in the Agencies does not augur well for their control of the Bomb in Western minds.
Digression: you and I - the twittering generation is doomed also. We can protest, scream, shout, yell, write, update.
Meanwhile, ill-educated and uneducated armed people with beards displace the state and impose their writ.
Is there a lesson in above?
Yes, this a duel to finish. In this duel our opponent has picked up Kalashnikiovs, rocket launchers and assault weapons. They are also adept in using the media - main stream and otherwise.
The keyboard warriors stand no chance. If we want to wrest power from the upstarts, we should be prepared to go to their battlefields and fight them with all means necessary - in the fields, in the valleys and in the media.
This should not be a solitary action of us vs. them. This is not the wild west where gunmen can duel it out.
We should also put pressure on the sitting governments to allay citizen's fears and do more to provide basic amenities - life, liberty, justice, food, shelter on an urgent basis.
It is the failure of the central and provincial governments to provide these basic amenities of life to its citizens that has turned the tide of civilian support for this misguided Taliban.
A victory on the ground will only be possible if, after the fight, the centre does not abandon them again.
Are we, the twittering chatteratis, willing to take up the challenge?
Failure to do so will mean stop shaving. And worse, bowing down to their gods.
posted by temporal at 4/11/2009
1 Comments:
We as a nation have become so confused, we don't know where are we heading , who is our fried who is our foe.
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