Has the enemy changed the tactics, war front and modus operandi after the halting of drone attacks in Pakistan? The yet another killing of 10 Pakistan security forces personnel – who had gone missing during a clash with militants on December 21 and were found dead in the Kago Qamar area of Upper Orakzai Agency on Monday – speaks of this change. The dead bodies were airlifted to Peshawar from where they were sent to the native towns and cities of the slain soldiers after funeral prayers.
Eleven personnel had gone missing during a clash with militants near Dabori in Orakzai Agency, two were killed and 22 others, including a Major, had sustained injuries.
Last week the Pakistani Taliban abducted and brutally murdered FC soldiers and termed it “a New Year gift” avenging a military operation in the Khyber Agency, vowing further violence. The extent of their brutality reached the heights as the bodies recovered from North Waziristan were witnessed sustaining 40 bullet holes each and signs of severe torture.
Is this the teaching of Islam and Shariah the Taliban vow to implement? Does Islam give permission anywhere in the Quran or Sunnah to treat the prisoners or captives like this?
Isn’t there a laid down formula in even the Taliban’s brand of Shariah how to keep and treat the prisoners. After the Gazwa of Badar, the prisoners were not even kept in prisons but homes where they were not tied but assigned the duty to educate the uneducated.
And if the Taliban claim that they avenged the killing of their commander at the hands of security forces, then again they have not followed the Quranic verses or teachings of the Holy Prophet where only one human being can be punished to death for killing one human being.
ALYA ALVI
Rawalpindi