Taliban are losing ground and in the process, they are realizing that it is one thing to be a bully around weak people, but bravado doesn’t mean that they were capable of fighting as well. Thank God, the Taliban are losing faster then everyone would have imagined. Still, astonishingly, people in are protesting the operation against the Taliban and this opposition to defeat the Taliban is nauseating.
On the hand, Fazllulah, one of the commanders of the Taliban has his men to not fight back when the army comes, after trying for weeks to stand up the military, and Major General Athar Abbas has correctly dismiss this as a tactic to escape. Fortunately, Pakistan army is not ready to be fooled anymore.
America has also requested China to help Pakistan in the fight to defeat the Talibans. It would be utterly surprising to note if China was already not helping Islamabad defend itself.
However, the most critical blow to Pakistan can still come from other sources. First, the situation in Balochiston is deteriorating by the minute. The unrest in the province has reach alarming proportion and there is great concern that at this stage, it is already extremely difficult to calm the anger and the fury that has been on the rise in the province.
Sindh too is burning as Sindhis are protesting against the influx of internal refuges, especially people from Swat who are traveling to Karachi to find work and shelter. The overall situation in Sindh, just like Baluching and N.W.F.P. is not good, not good at all.
Another freighting news for the people in Pakistan is the ever increasing price for electricity. As reported today, the government is about to repeal the subsidy on electricity that has been in place for God knows how long and now that it would go away, there is going to a firestorm of fury, anger and protests all over the country. This is a very tough decision, but Islamabad has no option, but to force people to pay more, or the country runs the risk of going broke.
All in all, the situation in Pakistan is bad, very bad. Worse, there is nothing anyone can do to fix the country. Let’s hope that it works out for the best.
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