Surgeon General: One of our Kin
Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Ahmed Baig became a victim of suicide bombing in Rawalpindi. He was one of our kin, a medical doctor by profession. He was a healer; someone who everyone seeks when injured or dying. It is hard to believe that someone would consider him a villain in the larger scale of the politics. He was a doctor not a killer. True that he was a soldier but he was also a doctor. He was the surgeon general of Pakistan. I do not know him but his picture speaks of a gentleman who was pretty much innocuous and kind. Who would benefit from his death?
Local Taliban have reportedly postponed their strikes till the new govt. comes into shape. So they in all possibility are out of the suspect list. Any political party has no interest in destabilizing their new achieved political power. So they are out too. A personal/domestic disagreement leading to killing through suicide is a far fetched idea too.
On the other hand Al-Qaeda will want to destabilize the country so that they can get hold of it. But i think they will be foolish to do this through killing innocent people and thereby loosing support on street. You can't rule a big country without the consent of its people. We have seen that in these elections. So unless Al-Qaeda is really stupid they can be ruled out too.
Our hostile neighbours could be one possibility. Afghanistan would want to see a destabilized Pakistan. Maybe India wants to hang in there too. But the most probable suspect could be someone who wants to keep the need for a coalition against terror in the forefront of Pakistani future. Someone who wants to ensure our long lasting committment to the coalition in the war against terror. Here is an army general who is kind and unlike his fellow generals. Kill him Al-Qaeda style and let people think that they need the support of that special someone to get rid of the mennace that is known as muslim terrorism.
Now we have an ample number of bad apples in our ranks, the prime example of which is Musharraf himself, who want to join hands with that special someone. So this seems a job of a local cell harbored by our very own insiders gone wild at the behest of the special someone and with keen knowledge of our neighbours.
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Local Taliban have reportedly postponed their strikes till the new govt. comes into shape. So they in all possibility are out of the suspect list. Any political party has no interest in destabilizing their new achieved political power. So they are out too. A personal/domestic disagreement leading to killing through suicide is a far fetched idea too.
On the other hand Al-Qaeda will want to destabilize the country so that they can get hold of it. But i think they will be foolish to do this through killing innocent people and thereby loosing support on street. You can't rule a big country without the consent of its people. We have seen that in these elections. So unless Al-Qaeda is really stupid they can be ruled out too.
Our hostile neighbours could be one possibility. Afghanistan would want to see a destabilized Pakistan. Maybe India wants to hang in there too. But the most probable suspect could be someone who wants to keep the need for a coalition against terror in the forefront of Pakistani future. Someone who wants to ensure our long lasting committment to the coalition in the war against terror. Here is an army general who is kind and unlike his fellow generals. Kill him Al-Qaeda style and let people think that they need the support of that special someone to get rid of the mennace that is known as muslim terrorism.
Now we have an ample number of bad apples in our ranks, the prime example of which is Musharraf himself, who want to join hands with that special someone. So this seems a job of a local cell harbored by our very own insiders gone wild at the behest of the special someone and with keen knowledge of our neighbours.
Technorati Tags: Pakistan, Terrorism, Pakistan Army, War Against Terror, Coalition, US, Afghanistan,
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