The turbulent northern areas

The situation in our Northern Areas is deteriorating, with the Nato forces eyeballing our men, who suffer from a similarity with the Taliban fighters, who use this similarity as a camouflage to mingle with the locals. The Taliban have been targeting and raiding the Nato forces in Afghanistan. Now with the Hot Pursuit credo in place we will see an escalation of the Nato attacks on Pakistani soil. Our Sovereignty is to be put to the test, by the farangis. Our leaders such as Hamid Gul must be asked, “Have the Taliban any respect for our borders or our laws?â€� Or the writ of our state. The same question must be put to our maulanas who are still grumbling about the Lal Masjid affair, which they have turned into a masterstroke of Public Relations. Converting a government land into a madressah, subsequently placing an administration of their own that obeyed no Pakistani laws, nor allowed any inspection and followed their own particular ethos. All this occurred within a mile of the presidency itself. Matters came to a head when they were confident enough to send vigilante groups out of their own premises, to begin raids on video shops and finally beauty parlours looking for brothels. They were effectively engaged in running a State within a State. Which is exactly what the militants have  established in Afghanistan and now in the Northern Areas. Their “enforcersâ€� have ensured that their writ is obeyed more rigorously than that of the Government of Pakistan.
In this sequence, the gradual establishment of the militants’ rule is now coming up against the Nato forces who are in a minority in Afghanistan, and by virtue of their disparity in numbers find themselves having to bunker down, and unable to move freely, for this freedom of movement belongs to any warlord strong enough to establish his right! The Pakistani government in the frontier even though democratically elected in February 2008, has conceded to the Pakistani army the governance of these areas. It will surely pit the Pakistani army against the Taliban directly, in Pakistan and not as previously between the Nato forces and Taliban with the Pakistani forces trying to ensure no collateral damage was inflicted on us. (Pakistan).