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Despite the increasing Taliban attacks on Pakistan, a leading English newspaper of Pakistan has cited that there is "no longer anything unexpected about the terrorist acts ripping through” Pakistan.
At the same time, it said the latest round of bombings had a "positive dimension".
"There is no longer anything unexpected about the terrorist attacks ripping through our country," The News said in an editorial headlined "Another day, another blast".
"But perhaps the latest rounds of bombings have a positive dimension," it said, adding: "They help lay out in the starkest terms the contours of the war we are fighting. This is a war for survival; it pitches the state of Pakistan and all those who represent it against people who seek its destruction. There is no room for ambiguity and no possibility of merely sitting on the fence”.
"There is reason to believe it is this sense of divide, the doubt over whether or not the Taliban were our real enemies that allowed them over the past decade to grow in number and strength," the editorial contended.
Maintaining that Pakistani government has failed in its attempt to pursue Taliban "when the task could have been far more easily accomplished than is the case now", the editorial said: "We were swayed in our resolve by those who insisted the militants presented no real threat; even that they were essentially good men and that our real fight lay with the US.
"We are now paying the price for holding such beliefs and for allowing them to shape policy. The elements within the establishment who propounded this point of view have a great deal to answer for. They can now make amends only by doing all that is possible to eliminate a ruthless enemy, before it destroys our nation and all that is good within it," the editorial maintained.
