Sir: It was a timely speech by Bilawal Bhutto at Makli Thatha on the concluding day of the Sindh Festival. He rightly said that how could the government hold talks with the terrorists. He rightly asked the terrorists who had given them the right to teach us Islam. The militants have no connection with reality, neither do they understand or believe in any law or constitution. To them human values are baseless phenomena. Their only action, response or communicative mode is violence. They don’t know what argument entails and how to get into one. Their aim, as rightly put by Bilawal, is to create chaos and uncertainty. Irrespective of whether they are sponsored by some enemies of Pakistan or as the clichéd argument goes are CIA-installed rogues, the issue is how to get rid of them. The reality is that they are an existential threat to the state and we have to wipe them out of our system. Is there any community, any religion or religious place and denomination that has not been attacked by them? The government is naive to believe that talks would generate any good.
Naushaba Abid
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