Pakistan: Opinion

Reject Talibanisation
Burning of schools and video shops, disallowing polio vaccination for babies, and banning female health workers sums up the process of Talibanisation. Do they want anything other than keeping females in shuttlecock burqas, barring them from education and jobs, and having men roam around holding guns? The Taliban are currently conducting a violent campaign against the people and the state of Pakistan, apparently to establish what they consider will be a ‘proper’ Islamic state. However, let us assume they take over. Are they going to re-build the roads, hospitals, libraries, schools, bridges, restaurants and anything else they have blown up? Given their record, I doubt it very much.They will instead throw us back into the dark ages with no progress, no education and no rights. It is about time we said a firm ‘no’ to Talibanisation. Our government is doing the right thing, but we as citizens should campaign against this creeping menace as well.