Daily Times

Sir: The news that a Taliban commander killed himself, his wife and his children while trying to make a bomb is in the best tradition of tragic comedy. The comic part is obvious. The sad part is that the wife and children of this incompetent madman had to pay for his bumbling and his insane beliefs. Is it possible that these people want to run the country, when apparently they can’t even properly do the one thing they are supposed to be good at? The only thing the Taliban have going for them, and the only reason the government is being forced to negotiate with them, is that they are horrible killers. Apparently ‘horrible’ is the operative word since the only thing they can do is blow themselves up. That explains why they use suicide bombers. We should not be afraid of these mentally challenged individuals; we should put them in special education instead.

ASMA ALI

Lahore