The chickens have come home to roost! Pakistan has
become a terrorists’ playground cheered by a crippling economy and a defunct
government, with an angry and confused population looking on.
Until recently, the Swat valley with its fertile
orchards, alpine ridges and silent streams was a popular weekend getaway. The
valley has been 'talibanised' now.
The Taliban have introduced the harshest laws
of Islamic justice, including public floggings and execution. They have wrested control of the local
government. They have seized Swat’s
emerald mines worth millions of dollars a year in gemstones. At barbershops, notices warning men not to
shave their beards can be seen. Women
cannot step out their homes unless accompanied by their husbands or male
blood-relatives’. Girls are ordered to
cover themselves from head to toe. ‘Suicide
schools’ are busy moulding a generation of radicals.
As the ‘terrorist bomb’ begins to tick; the world
is searching for a solution. Is there a
way to stop Pakistan
from breaking up? Can its fallout be contained?
- May
2009
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