Since the attack I have been thinking that it was not
just any other attack, of course the brutality, sickness, impotency and
disregard for even the harmless and purest lives of children makes it different
from all other attacks, but I was thinking there was more to it, not just that.
The thought slipped away somewhere in my mind. The recent
attacks in France on Charlie hebdo made me rethink about the Peshawar attack. Attack
on Charlie Hebdo was a desperate act by Al-Qaeda against the alleged
disrespectful cartoon of Muhammad which is blasphemy for some fanatics, had
another angle of competition, a competition against another terrorist organization
ISIS which is becoming more notorious than them. This was in a way other than
the killings and making a point, a message to the fellow Al-Qaeda fanatics and
also to the world that we are still in play and it’s not only ISIS. There are
several other analysis about freedom of expression, intolerance of Religions,
the political and social angles of France, social seclusion and all but this is
also prominent I think.
The Peshawar school attack was undertaken by the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) that is the Pakistani
Taliban. There is an Afghanistan Taliban and Pakistan Taliban. The same
Pakistan Taliban which was “Good Taliban” for the United States, the same which
was responsible for attack on Malala. This attack similar to the Al-Qaeda’s
attack on the Charlie Hebdo office was a response to the competition between
the Afghanistan Taliban who was gaining popularity to be more brutal and
notorious, so they came back in action with this. Also they were feeling less
important or less covered by Media because of the rise of ISIS. The tactical
aim of attack at the school being showing that they were more ruthless and
brutal than the other Taliban and strategic aim being that it was an Army
school, sending a message to the armed forces that let them operate freely till
recently and now had started resisting them, that they have more power than
them, and won’t accept the resistance.
This was I guess the wake-up call for USA to realize that
there is no “Good Taliban” left, or never was and on Tuesday 13th
January Us declared Pakistani
Taliban leader Mullah
Fazlullah a "global terrorist".
So now the bad state of the world fight against terrorism
is that it is not just that the terrorists are fighting against the one they
consider Infidels, but also are in competition among themselves. This makes
them more dangerous and more unpredictable as their response is not solely dependent
on the enemy but also the competition with similar terrorist organizations
which is a dangerous development.
