Gunmen kidnap seven Pakistani soldiers in Punjab

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Bhadra sir

Loads of taliban sympathizers in seraikustan south Punjab
yes Sir, True but Saiakies are manageable and the areas they cover from Bhawalpur to Rahimyar Khan, Multan etc can always be kept under control. Keep showing Saraikies movies like "Badmash Guzzar" or Hunterwali and they will remain happy.

Influence of Taliban south of Sindh is essentially due to land problems and existence of a large population of poor peasants. They are more like Naxals rather than hardcore Jihadies. Though Jaishe Mohamd is head quartered around Rahimyar Khan, the hardcore Sariki belt and an Arab Land.
 

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Being a soldier or a Jihadi are the only profession left for 90 per cent Pakistani youth. Those are the only two modes of employment in Pakistan.
 

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A dreaded fighter is one who is not scared by the prospect of death.

There are two kinds of people who are not scared by the prospect of death. One kind is the brave kind; the other kind is the one whose life isn't worth living. Most Pakistani youth fall in the second category.
 

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A dreaded fighter is one who is not scared by the prospect of death.

There are two kinds of people who are not scared by the prospect of death. One kind is the brave kind; the other kind is the one whose life isn't worth living. Most Pakistani youth fall in the second category.
yah like Azmal Kasab...... but the matter of worry is that those stupid fellows die outside their country - Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, UK, USA.....

Now they have started die-ing inside so being the neighbour, it does stink.

Both ways it is harmful for India.
 

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More than the army chaps being kidnapped, which is what is making headlines for now, the more important, I think there is a new strategy in place as the new spurt in terror attacks happen in Pakistan.

The message seems to be headed to the PA that they should not mistake the TTP with what they were when the SWAT clean-up operation happened, back then they were far from giving any substantive response.

This time round these chaps are well spread out, better organised, more determined with attacks being reported from Karachi to interior Punjab (which is anyways an active breeding ground for terror recruits) to Baluchistan and if the PA, at the behest of the NATO, take them on post the elections in Pakistan, then the war won't just be confined to North Waziristan but will be well spread out and will be fought in the heartland of Pakistan and if by chance Karachi and Punjab come under attack, the very future of Pakistan as a united country could come under question.

Pakistanis will have to tread this very carefully and so I think they are on a spree of releasing the Afghan Taliban, which not only helps them get leverage in the Afghanistan end-game but also helps them divert the attention of the TTP on to what TTP would perceive as something fruitful for the Taliban movement. As usual the PA has also used a part of Afghan Taliban, this time Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to make a condemnation call against the TTP, and make him announce that their war is not as per the ethos of jihad, as it should be, well, as per the definition of PA, of course.

What surprises me the most is, what sort of a dream world does the PA live in? In Afghanistan they want the Taliban to see the moon, and they promise them that they will get all the support possible to achieve it, but if they achieve it, will the aspirations of the highly religious Pakistani, who are to be found in abundance, also not want to achieve the same moon, but this time in Pakistan, where they would want to replicate the same to what the Afghan Taliban would have achieved in Afghanistan?

As usual, the PA continues to make strategic blunders, no less!
 

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It was obvious that these kidnapped men would be executed. This has happened several times before. The lesson is fight till the last bullet. Death is inevitable, but if that were the case, rather die in style.
 

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