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COUNTERING TERRORISM
WITH ZARB-E-AZB
or the last many weeks, it has been a very popular statement of different politicians, defense analysts and of different TV anchors that the Operation
Zarb-e-Azb in Pakistan is reaching its climax. This statement gives an impression that the menace of terrorism
has been completely uprooted from the Pakistani society and that there is no more danger from their side now.
But the fact of the matter is that the Operation Zarb-eAzb still needs to be carried on for a long time. Everywhere terrorism is the name of a disease which could
never be treated with simple medicines; it always ends
up in a surgical treatment followed by a long term followup. And in most of the cases this disease adopts the
form and shape of a malignant tumor which ultimately
becomes a serious threat
to life if not properly taken
care of. In short one has to
be very much offensive in
dealing with the menace of
terrorism but at the same
time it does not mean that
the scourge of terrorism is
incurable. Just cast a look
at the devastated and ruined lands of Sri Lanka a
few years back. The enchanting island of waters
and mountains had been
the ever-worst victim to the
terrorist activities of the LTTE for about three decades.
The LTTE began conducting extensive and deadly terrorist attacks against the Sri Lankan government and
civilians in 1983. As a result of this brutal terrorism more
than 80000 people lost their lives and thousands got seriously injured. The LTTE terrorists pioneered the use of
suicide bombings with the help of women and children
suicide bombers. The LTTE terrorists did all they could
do to destroy the whole of the social st