Taking on the Taliban

Pakistan will continue to foster terror groups (“ >Taking on good, bad, all Taliban ,” Jan.2). It is a state much like North Korea, gripped by paranoia that constantly feeds into imagined threats of facing great injustice from the world and of there being threats to its religion. It is said that school textbooks there contain all kinds of distorted history and lead on young minds to imbibe religious hatred. A generation of Pakistanis is said to have received this “education”, of promoting religious intolerance and Indophobia. This is the crude oil on which the terror economy runs in Pakistan. If Pakistan is to progress, it must teach its children about secularism and peace, about the need for friendship with neighbours and a correct history. Otherwise, names such as JeM, LeT, LeJ or TTP will only keep recurring and mutating and continuing to strike terror.

Apurv Lall,

Ernakulam

It is wishful thinking that Pakistan will finally awaken and start eliminating terror on its soil. Hafeez Sayeed and Dawood Ibrahim will continue to stay in Pakistan with dignity, honour and impunity. There is no guarantee that India will not be struck by them again. It is a fact that Pakistan is always at the controls of an apparatus to wage a proxy war against India. India should declare Pakistan as a terrorist state and in doing so have faith and confidence in itself than depending on the U.S. to help. No Indian government has taken any action like this so far and instead has been absorbing several terror body blows.

S.P. Sharma.

Mumbai