 President General Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday that it was imperative for all state organs to join hands to fight terrorism, adding that army would lead the war on terror.
| The cockles of my heart remain medium cool. Some of them are cold, in fact. |
“Pakistan is in danger. If we don’t unite against terrorism, the country will suffer,” he said. “We won’t allow them to harm Pakistan,” he said, adding that it was “not an easy job”.
| Why stop allowing them to harm Pakistain now? I'd think you'd be used to it. |
The president said terrorism had spread from the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) to the settled areas of the NWFP. “We are fighting with all our force and a plan is already in place to increase police force in the NWFP by 15,000, levies by 7,000 and 128 more platoons for the Frontier Constabulary (FC). Army would, however, remain in the lead role, he said.
| Perv has tentatively moved troops in and they've almost ostentatiously tried to avoid confrontation. They've proven themselves to be ill-trained, poorly motivated, and just about as effective as sending in the Boy Scouts would have been, assuming the Boy Scouts didn't have adult leadership. |
He said that prior to emergency the army was not allowed to do operation in Swat district, APP reported.
| They haven't done a hell of a job since the emergency was declared, have they? Or did we miss something? |
Referring to the Lal Masjid episode, he rejected aspersions cast on him that a nexus existed between him and the terrorists suggesting that the government did not want action against them. “Yes, there was a delay in action because the government wanted to save maximum lives,” he said.
| We watched the whole thing unfold in these pages, and it looked to us like the government tried to put things off as long as possible, and once the operation was actually carried out they put another nickle in the slot, the same bunch back in charge of the place, and started the game all over again. |
Musharraf said the military operation would continue until terrorism was defeated. Anyone who “disturbs law and order and wants to create anarchy in the name of elections and democracy, we will not allow that,” AFP quoted him as saying.
| You can do it in the name of Olde Tyme Religion, but not in the name of elections and democracy. That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense. Kinda. |
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