[NATION.PK] The recent developments in Pakistain with respect to the government making unspecified deals with the TTP in Afghanistan through interim Afghan interior minister Siraj Haqqani, and with the TLP on the rampage again through an equally controversial clergy has earned the government a lot of ire from within as well as from outside. Both proscribed organizations have undoubtedly questionable conception, existence, funding, sponsorship, motives and bloody operational strategy; with the blood of law enforcers as well as that of innocent civilians on their hands, besides plundering and destroying public and private property. While the government takes solace in the erroneous argument of a belief in the non-...
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bigots wearing religious cloaks who act as proxies in the hands of foreign hostile agencies as well as used by internal actors for show of power for politico-economic mileage. Both opinions hold some logic nevertheless, which shall be briefly discussed here.
There is a general consensus in the country among historians that the over assertive clergy of today was never supportive of the creation of Pakistain in the first place. However,