Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Our government has clearly not learnt from its mistakes. It is now starting off another disastrous programme by arming villagers to resist the Taliban. In the past they encouraged Mangal Bagh to do dirty work for them till he became too powerful to control and turned his guns upon the administration. They create Frankenstein's monsters and later complain about their own creations. Providing security to its people is the job of the government not of vigilante groups.
We don't want gun-toting vigilantes to be roaming our streets. Most of the weapons are going to end up with the favourites of the political bigwigs no matter what sort of a scrutiny procedure they plan to enforce. Please do not turn our province into a killing field, have a pity on us and instead recruit more people into the police and the FC.
Dr Arshad Khan
Peshawar
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Will the people of villages in NWFP fight for their own safety now? Is this not the responsibility of the state? Why is the government making a deliberate effort to transform Peshawar into a kind of a tribal area and invite civil war?
Muhammad Junaid
University of Essex,
UK
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