In the aftermath of 9/11, Musharraf Govt surrendering the will of Public joined hands with USA in order to combat a new form of warfare which existed though in past but widely pronounced after invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq by US forces. The decision was wise or not is a big debate, but one thing has been crystallized that the Man must have weighed this decision and found it less costly to take a U turn instead of backing Taliban Regime and then countering the US forces and a state which shares directly or indirectly a major position in our Budget making. Well, analyzing now in 2011, it appears quite logical that this magnitude of damage was never assessed by us. Perhaps the losses could have been pretty low even at all we had to fight against Americans. Their technological supremacy has been badly challenged by Afghan Taliban and now they are convinced to find out a suitable and respected way to pull out from this menace. Now questions arise to a common citizen of Pakistan, what would be the fate of Pakistan? Would we keep on fighting this war? Shall we keep on sacrificing our people and forces? How much time we shall be requiring to counter this threat? And on other side some people perhaps don't consider it even a threat as it has been manifested in their party agenda? PML (N) never agrees about the presence of Taliban in Punjab? Even party did not include it in its 10 point agenda. Reason given in one of the private channel by Khawaja Saad Raffique is quite interesting that they wanted to give PPP an agenda on which they can show progress in 45 days. A person who can read body language, easily reaches on a conclusion that PML(N) has a soft corner towards Taliban? And in my humble opinion this can be a biggest hurdle in devising a national policy against terrorism? Why do we want to split our nation on various core issues? Why all parties don't clear their stance on Terrorism? a simple answer could be , perhaps Pakistan cannot afford to have another enemy on its western border too and if at all one has to make another U turn, future PML ( N) govt is the most suitable option which could then very openly say that we were never convinced about this war on terror? This was US agenda and we remained against it and we are against it?
