| FrontPageMag.com | By Robert Spencer | By Hugh Fitzgerald | Books | Dhimmi Watch | Islam 101 | Qur'an Blog | Raymond Ibrahim | Robert Spencer |  |
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
“This speaks of a complete lack of control by the government over the situation.” "Taliban bring vigilante law to Peshawar," from Reuters, June 28 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
PESHAWAR: The Taliban are no longer at the gates of Peshawar, they’re inside, making their presence felt in the largest city in the NWFP.Their brazen movement is a chilling demonstration of the political and military failure to resist a militant Islamist tide rolling in from the Pashtun tribal belt on the Afghan border.
“This speaks of a complete lack of control by the government over the situation,” said Mehmood Shah, a former tribal region security chief.
President Pervez Musharraf warned more than two years ago that Talibanisation, the spread of the militants’ puritanical culture, was the greatest threat that Pakistan faced.
These days Taliban fighters do not sneak in to Peshawar. They arrive in broad daylight on the back of pick-up trucks, brandishing automatic weapons, and threatening owners of music stores to close down. “They had long hair and flowing beards, and were carrying Kalashnikovs. They told me to close down the shop or face the consequences,” said Abdul Latif, a clean-shaven 20-year-old, whose video store received a visit from the vigilantes last week. “I asked police for help but they said they are helpless,” he said.
Even Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Fazlur Rehman, a member of the ruling coalition known for his past support for the Taliban and opposition to Pakistan’s alliance with the US, has rung alarm bells.
“It’s just a matter of months before news comes that the entire NWFP has slipped out of control,” Fazl warned parliament. Officials said they (law enforcement agencies) were getting ready to go on the offensive within weeks to free Peshawar from the creeping insurgency, and an anti-terrorist force of 7,000 men had been raised.
“If we don’t take timely action, we will be facing a much bigger problem,” said Malik Naveed Khan, provincial police chief, whose cousin was killed by a suicide bomber two years ago.
“If we don’t take timely action, we will be facing a much bigger problem.” Ain't that always the way?
Posted by Robert at June 28, 2008 12:00 PM
Print this entry
| Email this entry
| Digg this
| del.icio.us
|
THE problem in tribal areas is that there is a mentality that says what was good enough for dad is good enough for me and why change
Posted by: crusader![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 28, 2008 1:37 PM
This may be news to al Reuters, but the MMA - the party that was elected to power last time in NWFP and defeated this time - was and is nothing but a clone of the Taliban within Fuckistan.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at June 28, 2008 2:10 PM
We're coming up on seven years. What have the people of Afghanistan done? How about Musharraf? If THEY don't take action, that entire area should be bombed back to the stone age, which wouldn't be hard to do since they never left it.
It's their country (countries).
Please don't look to the West for help in fighting the Taliban. We can't do your cleaning for you. You wouldn't fight them before, because of your tribal loyalties. Now you just have to live with it, with the understanding that you will die with it.
There is only one thing the West can do: close all borders to anyone who even transits through one of these two countries.
at June 28, 2008 3:10 PM
So, what does this mean? That Bush's "ally" against terror is terrorized by the terrorist regime the "ally" created and supported? Just like Bush's "ally" who killed 3000 Americans on 9/11 and subsequently got aid and arms, not to mention, increased student's visas that were used by the terrorists from Bush's "ally" country, to kill the 3000 Americans, leading to a "war-on-terror" in which terrorists were the "allies"? doesn't it?
Posted by: Alert at June 28, 2008 4:13 PM
Yup, just corral a few more of those errant misinterpreters of Islam and everything will be fine - in a few centuries, that is.
Pakistan has been going in reverse for a long time, but it seems to finally be hurtling down the hill backwards at a high rate of speed, until it lands in the Stone Age, all in a heap.
at June 28, 2008 5:15 PM
In what does the Pakistani government lack control? It seems to me they are aiding and abetting the Taliban takeover.
Posted by: aynrandgirl at June 28, 2008 5:36 PM
". They arrive in broad daylight on the back of pick-up trucks, brandishing automatic weapons, ..."
The Government surely has them frightened..
at June 28, 2008 8:13 PM
The Pakistani doesn't control that region because it is no longer Pakistan. It is Talistan.
Posted by: kyros at June 28, 2008 8:34 PM
The Pakistani doesn't control that region because it is no longer Pakistani. It became Talistan after the peace deals.
Posted by: kyros at June 28, 2008 8:35 PM
"Taliban enforcing Sharia at gunpoint in Pakistani province"
the old it's Islam or die game..
at June 29, 2008 5:56 AM
Comments are turned off and archived for this entry.
(Note: The Comments section is provided in the interests of free speech only. It is mostly unmoderated, but comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying stand a chance of being deleted. The fact that any comment remains on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch, or by Robert Spencer or any other Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch writer, of any view expressed, fact alleged, or link provided in that comment.)