My take on operation "Sirat-e-Mustaqeem"

Once this new government came into power, there was a hype created: "we are going to resolve all issues through dialogue"...

The hype fell face down when Richard Boucher came to talk some sense into the Politics of this country..

To be realistic and a bit sympathetic to this country's present rulers, negotiations were started but soon they failed. It seemed each time a dialogue was started, an American missile would tear through all hopes of peace.

So much for the hit-out-at-government part...

The militancia on the other hand, has not been the damsel in distress that they seem cut out to be. Perhaps each time a dialogue was started, what party benefited the most? The Qabailis. Each Peace-Talk seemed to mark an opportunity.

For instance, take this latest attack: inside Peshawar. Peshawar was somewhere militant's could only have dreamed about.

It seemed as though Pakistan's fate has been put into the wrong hands. Our democratically elected leaders and our not-so-democratically elected militant leaders are all playing their own game. No one is thinking about Pakistan's interests and no one is thinking about Islam. We are playing with Pakistan's interests and we are flagrantly using religion for our own selfish needs.