Zarb-e-Azb: More the things change…

Insanity, Einstein said, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

#Pakistan‘s interests in #AFGH and #Kashmir are legitimate, peaceful and unavoidable. They’ll be defended. #MakeNoMistake
— Ahmed Quraishi (@AQpk) June 15, 2014

#Pakistanis beware of some #Indians & #UK-based extremists with links to suspicious groups exploiting our internal events to sow confusion
— Ahmed Quraishi (@AQpk) June 15, 2014

Operation #ZarbEAzb is a Clear Message to the enemies of Islam & Islamic Republic Of Pakistan! pic.twitter.com/MLC9F5RnoL
— Aasia Ishaque (@aasia_ishaque) June 15, 2014

Let’s bomb the bunkers constructed with Indian taxpayer’s money. — Anonymous
— Ground Reality (@fauji_tweets) June 15, 2014

Without a comprehensive deradicalisation strategy, dumping of good/bad Taliban dichotomy and a relook at relations with neighbors; it is difficult to understand what this very limited (to bad Taliban based in North Waziristan), much delayed and crude (How many countries regularly deploy fighter jets to bomb insurgent hideouts in their own territory?) military operation will achieve apart from further alienation of local civilians from State, more reprisal killings of Shias, and violent attacks in Pakistan’s cities.

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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Brown Pundits Archive