I read in the news that British and US troops are engaged in a major military offensive in afghanistan,code named "Operation Khanjar" or in plain english Khanjar is a dagger.Across the border from afghanistan,in pakistan a notorious military operation is also underway in the bordering areas of pakistan.Until resently there was a public unrest about all this,and people were uneasy about Pakistani troops going after "their own people".
All has changed rescently.The public support has swung towards the army and whatever they are doing.This has never happened before.
The Pakistani public who until rescently had some sympathy for the militants,has no more for them,and have turned againt them.People are now sick and tired of bomb blasts,and some illiterate,rude pushtoons who grow beard but dont know the basics of islam,being absolutely defiant to any peaceful approach being made towards them.One militant group declares cease fire and after a few hours they start shooting and killing,and it goes on and on.
The Pakistan army on the other hand always had respect from the people,and they too are "one of us".They do their best to avoid bloodshed and refrain from using heavy handed tactics.The militant treat this as a weakness and ambush,abduct and butcher Pakistani soldiers at every possible oppertunity.On the other hand the army's approach towards the militants ia very humane.The militants dont care about who dies,when they send a suicide bomber who blasts himself up and kill people who were just minding their own business in a market or going to work in a public transport.The army on the other hand is very carefull about where they want their artillary rounds to fall,so as to avoid innocent casualties.
All this has changed public opinnion,and now people stand with the army.If the militants want to die,let the army help them and may they rot in hell forever.

There is a concept of pan islamic brotherhood,its still there,but then one has to judge who is right and who is wrong? The militants are wrong,they cant be considered as our "islamic brotheren".They are simply blood thirsty assassins with no moral values.They are fighting for their own personal grudge and anger for something about which the general public is unaware of.They claim to be fighting for shariah.Being a muslim myself,me too would like to have shariah law in any predominantly muslim country.There are ifs and buts.The public should be willing to live by the shariah law,and it should be implimented in full.The current militant style shariah advocates are only after the punitive part of shariah,which cannot be implimented if the public dont want it and if its not accompanied by a full social security system.If the shariah social security system is implimented,that will mean that part of the earnings and wealth that people have,should be paid to the government as tax,and on top of that all muslims living under such a system should willingly give their excessive money and belongings directly to the poor.And if a person sleeps hungry,he/she can approach the caliph and hold him responsible for his/her sufferings,and the caliph is obliged to provide for the needy.
When an ambassidor of a large empire visited meccah in the time of Umer and asked a man sleeping under a tree about the king's palace,he was told that the king has no palace,and when he asked wher the king can be found,he was sent towards a man sleeping under another tree with a brick under his head as pillow,and that was Umer.Those were caliphs who kept their life styles on the level of the general public so that they have the first hand experience of people's problems.
I dont think that the militants who dont even know about the very basics of islam,have no morals and are mindless killing machines can do any of this.They are people who are most of the time high on cocane and just want to fight for any reason whatsoever.