Taliban take 500 children hostage in Army school in Peshawar

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47. I appreciate the response and there is some truth to what you are stating

However, it is undeniable that Taliban was started by Zia ul Haq and later supported massively by Musharraf in order to control Afghanistan. It is known in Indian intelligence circles that Mullah Omar was a sobriquet and a role for a Pakistani Brigadier General on deputation in Afghanistan and after the war, he just went back to his original post in the ISI. This is why he never allowed his picture taken nor is anything known about him pre and post Taliban.

Musharraf hoodwinked GW Bush in the Kunduz (Qu'unduz) airlift and evacuated some 10,000+ Pakistani soldiers out of Afghanistan. It is also known that Pakistan wanted to control Afghanistan for its "strategic depth" and didn't want the pro-India government of Ahmad Shah Masood running Afghanistan. There is no way a rag tag bunch of Pashtun fighters could have defeated Ahmad Shah Masood without massive training, weaponry and actual participation of trained soldiers.

What is sad is that Pakistan has become very good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The current hope of average middle-class Pakistanis of a stable, democratic government of Nawaz Sharif is being dashed by the army/ISIs engineering of support for Imran Khan, an otherwise sensible politician who is embracing the extremists and the military support just for his ego and ambition to be prime minister. Everyone knows how that ends.

I think that Pakistan's obsession with Kashmir makes it always choose the wrong decision and has created a bloated military that is entirely unnecessary. Pakistan should get over Kashmir and be happy that Kashmiris are living in a true democracy with an economy 180 times that of Pakistan.

Welcome to DU by the way. I always enjoy discussions with intelligent and rational people from Pakistan.