Ameen. O:-) Z T Minhas wrote: > The short answer to the question as to why is there still support for > the Taliban? Because the Taliban does the right thing. > > Z T > > Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha wrote: >> URL-http://montages.blogspot.com/2008/09/land-question-behind-taliban-resurgence.html >> >> >> The Land Question behind the Taliban Resurgence >> >> <http://montages.blogspot.com/2008/09/land-question-behind-taliban-resurgence.html> >> >> >> The Dexter Filkins article below clarifies the main reason for the >> Taliban resurgence, which looks not unlike an Islamic variant of the >> Maoist "people's war." >> <http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/date-index.htm> >> >> Without substantial land reform in the tribal areas, the Taliban will >> continue to grow in Pakistan. Pressuring the Pakistani government to >> attack the Taliban militarily in Pakistan so as to deny the Taliban >> in Afghanistan "strategic depth" >> <http://books.google.com/books?id=uyocjlA6Vx4C&pg=PA30&dq=pakistan+%22strategic+depth%22&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U2uXcYGN_WLmPzyyx4cmmY0yDv-YQ> >> >> (the current main US approach), or worse the US military directly >> invading <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/world/asia/22tribal.html> >> the tribal areas >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/world/asia/14taliban.html> in >> Pakistan (the approach that the US will be increasingly taking), is a >> recipe for disaster, liable to make the whole of Pakistan, which has >> not become a coherent nation >> <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/alam050908.html> yet, ungovernable. >> >> Everywhere I traveled during my stay in the tribal areas and in >> Peshawar, I met impoverished Pakistanis who told me Robin >> Hood-like stories about how the Taliban had challenged the >> wealthy and powerful people on behalf of the little guys. >> Hamidullah, for instance, was an illiterate wheat farmer living >> in Khyber agency when, in 2002, a wealthy landowner seized his >> home and six acres of fields. Hamidullah and his family were >> forced to eke out a living from a nearby shanty. Neither the >> local malik nor the government agent, Hamidullah told me, would >> intervene on his behalf. Then came Namdar, the Taliban commander. >> He hauled the rich man before a Vice and Virtue council and >> ordered him to give back Hamidullah's home and farm. >>
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