Mobilise public opinion
This is with reference to Editorial: "Growing Taliban threat to Pakistan," (May 2).
Referring to the operation against the Taliban, former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Najmuddin Shaikh wrote recently in Lahore's Daily Times : “…to be able to continue this operation, the army and the government will need public support and for that the media has to play a far more constructive role than it has been inclined to play so far.”
Despite the fact that the Taliban have been brutalising fellow Pakistanis in the areas controlled by them, the press and the pundits with few exceptions have failed to inform the public about the threat the Taliban and their acolytes pose to Pakistan. Like Hitler's willing executioners, who slaughtered thousands of their compatriots while blaming the Jews for their suffering, the Taliban are slaughtering Pakistanis while blaming America and India. This is why the public remains totally indifferent to the daily bombings and beheadings by the Taliban. Pakistan must mobilise public opinion in this protracted fight against the Taliban.
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