‘Terror snakes’ biting back, attacks up 51% in Pakistan

India

lekhaka-Deepak Tiwari

Ever
since
Taliban
2.0
has
come
to
power
in
Afghanistan,
data
shows
that
there
has
been
an
increase
of
more
than
51%
in
terror
attacks
in
Pakistan.

New
Delhi,
Dec
30:
Quite
recently,
India’s
foreign
minister
S.
Jaishankar
reminded
Pakistan
of
what
Hillary
Clinton
had
said
about
the
Islamic
country’s
terror
camps.
He
had
reminded
the
terror-sponsor
Pakistan
about
their
practice
of
keeping
‘snakes
in
backyard’ and
warned
that
it
could
bite
them
back.
Now,
a
study
has
come
that
shows
it
indeed
is
happening
and
that
too
at
an
alarming
scale.

According
to
the
Khaama
Press
of
Afghanistan,
terrorist
attacks
on
Pakistan
have
gone
significantly
up
over
the
last
one
and
half
years.
This
is
also
the
time
Taliban
2.0
has
come
to
power
in
Afghanistan.
The
data
show
that
there
has
been
an
increase
of
more
than
51%
in
terror
attacks
as
Pakistan
has
lost
all
its
control
over
Afghanistan
Taliban.

Earlier
this
month,
there
was
heavy
shelling
from
the
Taliban
on
December
11.
Similar
shelling
was
seen
on
December
15
that
killed
one
and
injured
more
than
a
dozen
Pakistanis.
Its
loudmouth
foreign
minister
Bilawal
Bhutto
Zardari
has
not
yet
visited
Afghanistan,
instead
he
sent
his
deputy
Hina
Rabbani
Khar
to
Kabul.
However,
Afghan
defence
minister
Mullah
Yaqoob,
who
firmly
believes
in
Talibani
ideology,
refused
to
meet
Khar
as
she
is
a
woman.

A
bankrupt
Pak
selling
its
embassy
in
US

Taliban
is
no
friend
of
Pakistan

When
the
Taliban
usurped
power
in
Afghanistan,
it
was
Pakistan
who
was
laughing
the
most
as
its
‘partner’ had
become
the
ruler.
However,
it
did
not
take
much
time
for
the
Taliban
to
become
a
nightmare
for
Pakistan.
Now,
the
Pakistani
establishment
is
clueless,
and
does
not
know
how
to
handle
the
Taliban.
Moreover,
the
Taliban
knows
Pakistan
has
nothing
to
offer,
especially
as
its
economy
is
down
and
dusted.

The
Khaama
Press
report
also
claims
that
the
Afghan
Taliban
is
challenging
Pakistan.
For
decades,
Pakistan
had
been
talking
about
‘good
Taliban
and
bad
Taliban’,
now
it
appears
it
will
have
to
admit
that
there
is
no
good
Taliban.
The
latest
development
is
that
Taliban
has
let
loose
the
Tehrik-e
Taliban
Pakistan
(TTP)
on
Pakistan
so
that
the
latter
could
taste
its
own
medicine.

All’s
not
well
between
Taliban
&
Pakistan

Analysts
are
of
the
view
that
it’s
not
just
about
souring
relations
between
Taliban
and
Pakistan
but
also
about
Taliban
unshackling
from
the
Pakistani
grip.
Taliban
for
long
have
been
identified
as
Pakistan’s
monster;
however,
now
it
does
not
want
this
identity
anymore.

India
reiterates
Pakistan
needs
to
protect
its
minorities

Needless
to
say,
Imran
Khan
had
shown
happiness
and
praised
that
Taliban
had
broken
“the
shackles
of
slavery”
just
one
and
half
years
ago.
However,
now
it
appears
Taliban,
in
fact,
has
broken
the
shackles
of
slavery
from
Pakistan
and
ISI.