[One Pakistan] Pakistain must wake up to the fact that its enemies, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and its affiliates, are some of those "illustrious ex-assets that have support or protection of our friends- the Quetta Shura, the Haqqani network and al Qaeda," an editorial in a Pak newspaper has said. Pakistain remains in "obstinate denial of several key facts and their implications for the country," the Daily Times editorial said.My hero, Najam Sethi again risks having his car explode or disappearing into the bowels of North Wazoo.
One of such facts is that the Islamic terrorist landscape is now immensely more complicated than it was during the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, it noted.
Most Islamist beturbanned goon organizations in the region have more or less coalesced under al Qaeda's pan-Islamist ideology, it added.
Most of them are now owned by al-Qaeda, which through them owns significant portions of Pakistain, to include Abbottabad.
The editorial pointed out that the TTP and its affiliates, "avowed enemies of Pakistain, are some of those illustrious ex-assets that have support or protection of our friends the Quetta Shura, the Haqqani network and al Qaeda."
"Why its Frankensteins do not occasion Rawalpindi to pause and rethink its failed strategy has now become nothing less than a stupefying mystery," it wondered.
"If the wise men think the Afghan Taliban will not be a source of invaluable support for the likes of the TTP, that double dealing is solely their preserve, they have a surprise in store," the editorial concluded.