... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Assembly's leader of the house. Police feel the politician was the target as he had already been receiving death threats. Over the past few days we have seen the scale of violence and level of ferocity the bully boyz are capable of, from the killing of two polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccinators in Swabi to the assault on a busload of women students and subsequent siege of Quetta's Bolan Medical College. These attacks show that religious bad turbans' targets are widespread and not limited to symbols of the state or security forces -- civilian non-combatants are equally fair game. By indulging in wanton violence the bully boyz are destroying the fabric of society.
Still, a state of denial regarding the bully boyz persists. Though PTI chief Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
condemned the Mardan bombing, other party leaders linked the attack to drone strikes. Believing such a theory will perhaps be a difficult task even for diehard PTI supporters. The PTI, as well as the PML-N, still believe in a negotiated settlement with religious bad turbans. They must make it clear how they will go about this. Who will they talk to and what will be the terms? Imran Khan's party in particular faces a moment of truth. It has already lost a provincial politician earlier this month when Fareed Khan was rubbed out in Hangu, also reportedly by myrmidons. Now, another politician linked to the party has lost his life. The PTI needs to come to terms with the bad turban threat and not offer far-fetched explanations that appear to justify myrmidon violence.