It’s rude awakening for the interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and PTI chief Imran Khan in recent couple of weeks. Judging from their statements it’s obvious that they now understand that it’s useless to negotiate from the point of weakness. The interior minister, his boss in PM house has now understood that they need to talk to terrorist not only on the table but also in their own violent language at the same time.
As usual after recent surgical strikes in North/South Waziristan and their adjoining areas, Taliban terrorists have yet again softened their tone and trying to play victim through their sympathisers in the media. They always do that just to relocate and regroup. This time their ploy has failed as both political government and military is not letting them go. It’s not full blown operation, but it’s not calm out there either. Contrary to the common belief in the media, the paradigm of Fight fight, talk talk is not American notion. It is based on the Chinese philosophy. Mao Zedong, the great Chinese leader was the innovator of this strategy. So the current Pakistani tactic is in line with Mao Zedong’s tactic of “fight fight, talk talk (da da, tan tan).”
The great Mao Zedong, according to this tactic, would negotiate, not in order to ‘get to yes’ and reach a compromise solution, but to buy time, color his opponent’s views, and influence third parties. The ultimate goal never changed, whatever the negotiating positions. For the good luck of the Pakistanis, the at last the goal is clear for us now. The goal is to not to tolerate the terrorism attacks in Pakistan. If any terrorist attacks happens anywhere in the Pakistan, it would be retaliated with double triple force and might in the epicenter in the Waziristan and other agencies wherever the terrorist would be found based on intelligence. Simultaneously, if they anybody wants to talk, they are more than welcome.