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India-Pakistan
A fragile peace with Taliban if school attacks escalate
2013-06-26
[Pak Daily Times] In the week in which America opened the door for negotiations with the Taliban, three bloody massacres of school children - shot down simply because they wanted to go to school - raise grave questions about what kind of peace the Taliban offer.
Why would anyone with so little as a single eye in their head have any questions whatsoever about the kind of peace the Taliban desire? The only question is which among the various Talib groups would come out on top in the end.
Within days of the initiative for talks, the Taliban shot to death nine foreign tourists encamped on the peak of Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistain, saying the murders were in retaliation for a drone attack that killed one of their leaders. But what kind of justification can possibly be offered for the Molotov cocktailing of a college bus carrying forty girls from their Quetta campus in Pakistain? Fourteen defenceless girls died in the bombing; eight more people died when the Death Eaters ambushed the hospital.

We are confronted by a savage war waged by Islamic forces of Evil against young people seeking education. In the wake of the outrage in Pakistain, two appalling massacres that killed 16 students were perpetrated in Nigeria by the country's leading terrorist group, Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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