Few and Far between voices rise, mostly from Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaaf to give the chance to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan to open an
office in Islamabad or in some other place in KPK to run its office which would
eventually be helpful in talks with Talibans.
Last year, Chief of PTI Imran Khan has offered to the
terrorists to open an office, back then after severe criticism PTI tried to
escape and was in the view that it was individual idea of Imran and remarks in
this regard did not reflect party policy. This time KPK Chief Minister renewed
his government’s offer to the militants to open an office in the province,
adding that the KP government would “cooperate with them” in this regard. Those
favoring this idea give logic that in the past Afghan Taliban had opened an
office in Doha then why we can not give chance to local Taliban to have the
same facility in Pakistan and obviously talks could not take place somewhere on
the mountains and a proper place required to do so.
Not only the civil society but also federal government has
done well to strictly oppose the renewed calls for granting the TTP a piece of
state-sanctioned office space. The State Minister for Interior told the Senate that
the centre would not allow such a move which makes sense because this act would
lead a very negative image of the government in front of the masses because
there has been valid criticism that state is not taking hard steps when it
comes to dealing with the militants.
There can be more then dozen of arguments presented against
the statements of PTI members for giving a chance to TTP to open an office in
Pakistan. First of all TTP is a banned outfit which does not consider the constitution
of the Pakistan Islamic and they have repeatedly declared it in the past, then
how they should be given a chance to open office. Second TTP terrorists have
killed hundreds of thousands innocent people of the our beloved country without
sparing women, children and old citizens and created chaos in the state now if
they would be given a green signal to open an office in the country then how
the politicians would face the relatives of the martyred people who had been
killed by the brutality of TTP terrorists. Engaging with terrorists for
negotiations is one thing and giving them chance to open an office is quite
another and illogical act because it gives the sense that government is
legitimising the militants and recognising them as equal partners. Question
also arises that would the politicians then also consider allowing other
officially banned outfits based on ethnic, linguistic, regional and sectarian
basses and operating all over the country to open their respective bureaus in
order to deal with them properly? TTP is well known for its brutality and militants
of TTP want to remake or change Pakistan into their own image which has nothing
to do with Islam and for this purpose they use force and kill innocent people and
they also challenge the writ of the state and it seems that few politicians are
helping TTP in that aim but they must not forget that nation is standing beside
the effected people by the cruelty of the terrorist and they would never accept
such ridiculous acts of the politicians.
