The car bomb blasts in Peshawar have given a message to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is now in Pakistan to give a reassurance of friendship and security to change tracks. Along with that, it has also given a warning to those women of Pakistan who go to Meena Bazaar to purchase cosmetics to closet themselves in their homes.
Specific Target
Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan to tell that there is no laxity of any kind in the relations, and the United States would always continue to provide support in the war against terror. Directly, in contrast to it, the Taliban want that the United States and NATO forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and they grab power in Afghanistan first and then in Pakistan.
Therefore, the blasts during Hillary Clinton's visit were carried out in Pakistan and also in Kabul's UN guesthouse. The peculiar aspect about the Peshawar attacks is that there have been 50 attacks here so far since June 2008 targeting civilians. The most intense attacks among these have started since the last week of September, killing nearly 200 persons.
Military Operation Against Taliban
These attacks have intensified after the military operation against Taliban began in Swat valley first, and then in South Waziristan. One meaning of it is that terrorists, frustrated and disappointed by the military operation, are now trying to exert pressure to stop the operation by targeting civilians. But that is not true. There have also been attacks on Army headquarters and police headquarters of cities like Islamabad and Lahore. Therefore, it does not seem right to say that terrorists have become weak and are targeting women and children in Peshawar in frustration.
Terrorists are facing the Army, and they are also targeting markets of Lahore or attacking Meena Bazaar of Peshawar, to change the middle-class lifestyle. This city on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has been a center of terrorist activities since the 1970s, has become a sanctuary for the Taliban who fled from Afghanistan.
Today, neither the Pakistani Government, nor the Afghan Government is able to properly implement the US Af-Pak policy. In this situation, if US President Obama is preparing a plan to pay the Taliban who lay down their arms, one could assess the change that is coming after these blasts have crossed the limit.
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