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The Taliban and Pakistan military.


The Swat Emirate enclave created by the Pakistan Taliban Islamic fundamentalists was never going to work, despite the backing of sections of the Pakistan military.

It was a peculiar proposition in the first place where the mighty Pakistan military machine, 800,000 men and backed by 300,000 paramilitary, mostly otherwise unengaged, mysteriously surrendered to the 3,000 lightly armed "Pakistan Taliban" in Swat, gave in to ALL their terms, and gave them government money just to make sure.

Message to all fundies in Pakistan: "Resistance to the writ and law of the Islamabad government PAYS".

If that's the sum total performance of the Pakistan military in defending Pakistan's sovereignty from anti-state actors both within and without, heaven help Pakistan........then why do we have the Pakistan military in the first place?

Whats it for?






Does the Pakistan military exist to carry out gay parades?

For disaster relief in Pakistan?

To kill as many Pakistani civilians as possible? it holds this record for all the military's around the world.

To participate in politics?

For narcotics running?

As a servant of the USA?

To destabilize Pakistan civil society?


To Islamise Pakistan so that Pakistan never becomes a modern country?


To turn Pakistan into a failed state?





Its not very good at fighting conventional wars against professional foes such as India.............and it can't even manage to deal with rag tag anti state forces, such as the 3,000 Swat Taliban. Worst still, if one thinks and believes that these Swat Valley fundies were aided by elements of the Pakistan military.

So why is the Pakistan NATION, poor and struggling, maintaining 800,000 men under arms and 300,000 paramilitaries?

What purpose do they serve?

What utility do they serve?

What benefit do they give to Pakistani society?

Why does the Pakistan military exist if it can't carry out its most basic functions?............................ Defending Pakistani soil from anti-state actors both from within and without.

Its bad enough if Pakistan's military participate in USA/UK geostrategy in the region under the guise of pan-Islamic nationalism ("Operation Cyclone") its worse if the idiots in the military actually start believing in such utter baloney and think its good for their society. Implementing such policy through criminal fundamentalist front military backed organizations such as the Swat Taliban.........legitimating them, supporting them.

And so we had this grossly ugly medieval spectacle of the flogging of an wholly innocent girl for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.........or maybe something else (In the words of minorities minister Antulay).....its public so the world will view it, laugh at Pakistan, sermonize at Pakistan, and for sure ridicule Pakistan. The law of the jungle...........where any female seen for any amount of time with the "wrong man" can be publicly flogged.......a society where 50% of the population must not communicate or look at the other 50% of the population.......which GAY ISLAMIC fucker came up with such laws?

Peace with the FATA anti-state insurgents make sense for Pakistan because, FATA was always semi-autonomous historically, and if some of the tribes in FATA supported their kith and kin across the artificial Durrand line in Afghanistan against the benevolent charitable Foreign Occupation Forces, well what could the Pakistan government do about that? Northern Ireland/Southern Ireland...... IRA. Spain/France...Basque separatists. That the Pakistan military should provide their military bases for the Americans to attack sovereign Pakistan territory takes it to another levels of stupidity on the part of the Pakistan military. That the Pakistan military should hide this fact from ordinary Pakistanis underlines their stupidity levels and the illegality of their action in the first place.

Swat is a different matter. Swat is inside Pakistan proper, not too far away from Peshawar, Wah, Taxila and Islamabad/Pindi. The Central governments writ needs to be clearly enforced and identified here for the sake of Pakistan's integrity.

Here there are no deals or compromises. And so the Swat Valley Emirate created by elements of the ISI and Pakistan military must be faced down, by everybody in Pakistan. Though normally it would be the job of the Pakistan military.

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Pak girl flogged for being seen with 'another' man

NDTV Correspondent

Friday, April 03, 2009,

Disturbing pictures have emerged of a young girl being brutally beaten by the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat valley. The 17-year-old girl was flogged because she was seen with a man who was not her husband.

She was punished just on the suspicion of a neighbour.

Her own brother was among the three men who pinned her down, while she took 34 lashes, crying out in pain.

A Taliban spokesperson said:

"She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her. There are boundaries you cannot cross."

An embarrassed Zardari administration has now ordered an inquiry.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani says: "We have ordered an enquiry into the incident. We condemn what has happened. We will investige girl flogging incident in Swat."

But there is growing anger against Zardari's peace pact with the Taliban. A deal which was backed by the US. Human rights activist Asma Jehangir says: "Under the peace deal, the government has put the lives of the people in Swat in the hands of the Taliban. The administration says there is peace there. I challenge them to take their family there for a picnic."

Protests are getting louder, but activists fear the Taliban is only tightening its grip over the Swat valley.