The suicide attack on the army training camp in Dargai is really a very dangerous and worrisome sign. In fact it should be taken as a wake up call that the strategy or lack thereof adopted by Musharraf is rapidly unraveling. It is imperative that generals around Musharraf pay attention. They should make him shed off all his pretentions. Instead of enjoying his role as a mercenary in America's war he better think of Pakistan and its people first.
This carnage in Dargai and one in Chingai are clear and vivid symptoms of the fatal course the country has been put on since 9/11. Now things have started spinning out of control at a mind-boggling speed. I am afraid they are on their way to spiral downward to a civil war if the generals don't take heed to the sirens going off all around them. It is a shame that the Pakistani military is losing its respect and prestige, it once held in the civilian eyes, due to junta's policy of kowtowing to every item on every wish list they are handed by the foreigners.
The sense of helplessness in the face of daily growing prices and pitious situation of law and order taking its toll. The demon of poverty and despair is pushing people to think about carrying the gun. Up to now it was blind military might against the people. Only last week Major General Shaukat Sultan was caliming massacring what turned out to be innocnet kid students as young as five years old.
The people have already been pushed too far. What they are supposed to do when they see their lives going up in smoke?
Give them reason to live with dignity. Make them partners in peace instead of casting them as enemy within. Would someone around Musharraf listen?
