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'Pakistan's 9/11': media says it's the nation's own war
(PTI) Labelling the suicide attack on the Marriott hotel as "Pakistan's 9/11," leading newspapers here said the nation must take up the fight against terror on its own, no mater the reservation about American actions in Afghanistan or elsewhere.The papers also said that the new civilian government must immediately craft a new policy to fight the growing threat from terrorists. "Pakistan is fighting its own war against terrorism and not America's," the country's leading newspaper Dawn said in an editorial today. Pakistan's oldest English daily pointed out that the target may have been "western" in Islamabad's carnage but the timing shortly after iftar ensured that that the majority of victims were Pakistanis. "In the days ahead, the bombing will take to a fever pitch the debate about whether Pakistan is fighting its own war against terrorism or America's. The debate will miss the point: it is an internal war, and it goes to the heart of what we want Pakistan to be," the paper said in the lead editorial Dawn titled "Defeating Terrorism". "... Yet virtually no one in the country is aware of who we are fighting and why. Worse yet, it's not clear who is responsible for the operation: the political government, the military or both?" it added. Another leading daily, the News said that the attack has created horror even in a nation that has become "resilient to shock" and "accustomed to terrorist violence". "It is being described as the worst suicide bombing yet to take place in the country - Pakistan's very own 9/11... The act has proven too that terrorism is an evil that Pakistan must fight. It is not a war that involves the US, or other powers." Posted by: Fred 2008-09-23 |
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