Pakistan army preparing to take back Swat, defeat terror all cost

No, IA. My doubt is not about the Pakistani army. My doubt is rather about what the people of Pakistan want and are willing to do to have freedom and modernity, a secular government and so on.

You can't get to "eat wheat bread and some meat, watch some movies or listen to songs, go to shopping, play, maybe pray to god etc - the kind of things normal people do" without a lot of sacrifice when needed and a lot of effort when needed.

The problem of battling a radical traditional religion within your own country is a big one.

This is not a criticism of Pakistanis, of whom I have only known a few (such as the guy who built my computer!).

What I intended  to say was, the ordinary Pakistani  does not want to go to jihad or become a suicide bomber or kill infidel kind or stuff. Only certain brainwashed soul(less)s go in that direction. With all the bells and whistles they got a  "democratically elected" government last time. The people expected the government to do minimum things those are expected of governments. Now I guess people are angry and lost hope in the way the Swat was handed over to Taliban - virtually in a platter - by the government. 

Maybe the Army who have already tasted blood would have turned a blind eye towards the creeping Taliban and waited till the time the problem exploded in the face of the civilian government.

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IA, I understood you perfectly. The people have a "live and let live" attitude.

This is always the problem with the Golden Rule. Modern people often indulge themselves in believing that when there is hostility, it is the result of trampling on the Golden Rule on their part, and even when such trampling may have been unintentional, unconscious and would certainly never call for extreme measures such as having someone fly a plane into your building.

What to do with those who have no intention of doing unto you as you would do unto them in your effort to fulfill the Golden Rule?

They pose a problem without end because to be able to live your life, you have to do unto them things you don't want to do unto others.

This brings on guilt and shame and opens you up to paranoia as you examine your conscience as to what it could be that has aroused such hostility. Even knowing that you can no longer tolerate being abused brings on guilt, as if you could save everyone from the folly of not following the Golden Rule..

Now here we have some  respectful, informed and intelligent comments. 

Grazie, Regina.

Thanks for the updates, C and E.

Pakistan is the only country has nuclear weapon, but no continuous electricity to their people. Pakistan can't eradicate Polio since they can store polio vaccines. Politicians definitely got their priorities screwed up.

Now the spreading disease of Taliban is within 60 miles of Pakistan's nuclear facility. Do you need anything greater to worry about global safety ?

I don't think the world should leave this mission to Pakistan politicians. Spreading Taliban into Pakistan is too much of a global threat to leave it up to these dummies. It is also sad to see all the effort and lives put into Afghanistan is just taking a different form and larger damage in Pakistan due to the absence of strong politicians and the real desire to root out Talibans.

Taliban turn back the Pak Army!

So much for that.

Pakistan army will never be able to contain Taliban nor U.S.. Taliban is running in their blood and outside. Blame those who have created the environment and circumstances turning a peaceful non-alligned people into such deadly bigots. Push people to the wall and force them to act in certain way , blame them and kill them. U.S U.S I say U.S.

I want to see who would win, The Weak who would inherit the heaven or the pharoah gone beserk by multifarious greed and adventure.

The Taliban or Al Qaida are nothing BUT evil GOG and MAGOG they are the children of Satan. Taliban must go from Pakistan because WE dont want a stone age law in the world today. No more 'Eye for an Eye or Tooth for an Tooth' please but PEACE. SALAM.