According to my point of view this is nt the solution to get rid of terrroris.The real solution is to dismantle the TTP network across the country as Sri Lanka did eliminated LTTE.

jawad yousuf Said:

“This incident is hardly significant in Pak America relations coz both countries are pursuing own interests and in the long term their interests hardly coincide.”

I say this, both Pakistan and America want peace in Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan. None of the two have to gain anything from turmoil.

But there are people, specially “Mullah Brainwashed Pakistanis and Afghanis” who will bash Pakistan and America until their last breath.

All we should say “May Allah help Pakistan and America to work together to eliminate evil enemies of peace”

I think this a big achievement. Also there are news that there were contineouse infighting among the millitants on whom would be the next successor. Government and millitary establishment must not lose a single moment to completely root the millitants leadershership out from the Pakistani soil. This would help demoralize the second and third level leadership, and so would contribute to peace of the region.

Baitullah Mehsood’s death will hardly play any role in fight against terrorism.The question is who are funding terrorists?This incident is hardly significant in pak america relations coz both countries are pursuing own interests and in the long term their interests hardly coincide.

Baitullah Mehsud dead, what next? Good question.

Unfortunately, this is not the end of Pakistan’s problems.

Iqbal said “Muslim hain ham watan hai Sara Jahan Hamara” Meaning we are Muslims and the entire world is our homeland.

If Iqbal comes out of his grave and see Pakistani Muslims, he will be shocked to see Pakistani Muslims are no longer the Muslims of his time. Their Watan (homeland) is now Bangal, Bluchistan and soon it will be Pakhtonistan. No one know what the Sindhis, Punjabis and Mohajirs will do because Pakistanis are racially divided and that is against the teachings of Islam.

Then the problem of Muslim teenagers attending Madrassas where they are taught to kill and be killed. It is beyond the power of government to stop Madarssas to produce terrorists and militants who will kill their own brothers and sisters rather the outsider enemies of Pakistan.

Then the problem of feud between Pakistani leaders. There is a move to try Parvez Musharraf. Has anyone thought what benefit it will give to Pakistan even if Musharraf is hanged like Bhutoo. On the other hand there is more chance of division in the ranks of Army at a time when Pakistan is fighting terrorists and it is in the best interest of Pakistan to keep the Army united. Musharraf, regardless of what wrongs he did, he definitely saved Pakistan by joining Americans in war on terror. If he had not done what he did, Pakistan would be in the same state as Afghanistan.

May Allah give wisdom to Pakistanis to become united and powerful and have better future.

If there is no body, he is not dead.
If he is dead, and that is a big ‘if’, some one else will take his place.
Noting is going to change in the long term.
In the short term there will be a spike in the violence as a result of revenge attacks.

The drone attacks/targeted assassinations have a place in the fight against al-quaida and taliban.

So what is new?

I would like to congratulate the Pakistani for haunting down the criminal involved in the hideous crimes, Beitullah Mehsud. Although there were a lot others like him, but it is a lesson for others who are following him.
We should press the America to transfer the Drone attack technology to Pakistan so that our Air Force can be proved to be effective in dealing with such criminals.

Besides interests of various powers in this geogriphical region, there are some important domestic factors due to which people like Baitullah Masood emerge. The most important one in my view is our belief, forcefully excercised in tribal belt and Balochistan, that every child brings his own rizq. So, ‘Men’ of these areas have at least 8 to 10 children with one wife.If some one has four wives, you may expect around 40 in a single house. In a rugged environment where there is not much to do for survival,mostly these children go to madersas where they get opportunity of free food and shelter and in turn become toys in the hands of mullahs.With their own interpretation of religion, these immature minds, mostly sexually exploited, become people like Baitullah Mehsud. Don’t celeberate the death of Mehsud, because this area is full of people like him.

Simply,the hidden confidence of pakistani government in the U.S drones strategy is no more back stage.Wether he has died or not the government has successfully given the impression that they are dealing with ‘Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’ in Waziristan very well, in fact accordingly with the U.S strategic idea.They have justified U.S interferance much better than the Musharaf’s government.

Baitullah Mehsud if dead, i am glad just like all evils he met his fate but lets be not be so happy to forget that beside his successors, we have to finish the ideology of Baitullah Mehsud that is still alive.

If alive, the ministers should try to be careful next time he dies.

Pakistani govt should not celebrate Baitullah assassination in this way that they are endorsing drone attack.Because now USA has strong and valid points that they have the power or authority to kill taliban leaders because Pakistan cannot capture them or kill them.So this is the need of the hour that Pakistani govt should be careful while favouring US drone attack.They should condemn them if they are sincere but if this is happening mutually then one can not say something.

Another terrorist is shaheed.

It’s a hydra, not a snake.

I fear if Monster is yet killed. Taliban and Al-Qaeda brainwashed the young generation. It is high time Pakistan should now introduce aggressive changes in the curriculum to brainwash the next new generation to expose Terrorists, specially Mullah Umar, Usama and Baitullah Mahsud.

Well-wisher of Humanity, God protect civilised nations from the wrath of terrorism, amen.
Hussain

Baitullah (Meaning God’s House) was unfortunately, a Devil’s Arena.

Oh brothers! oh Pakistan!
This is how it works
strategic depth of yesteryears
now a total jerk.

What is in a name, the bard
had wisely said.
call him Hakim, call him Wali,
Even if Mehsud is in earthen bed.

I have a sword, I will kill
If not in name of my religion
Or for the book
I will for my electricity bill.

For you who from your politician mansions
look down upon us
that is not tomato puree you see
it is our human blood.

Divide us not , for lines are blurred
As you go down the chain.
Hold us not in the chains of hatred
in our sighs is your shame.

So what is this,a bad dream?
Be it Wali or Hakim
Oh Maula! to thee i pray
Or was it Mehsud , did you say?

OK — so pakistan killed one Baitullah — there is a Saitullah who is ready to do the same job.

Problem is Pakistan is not serious about dealing with Extremism. It deals with it selectively and as long as this policy continues — there is no hope for Pakistan.

Show me the bodies!. Without a display of the remains i will not believe the Interior Minister of Pakistan, whose tall claims are just that. Tall claims. Who’s fooling who?.

Beware my fellow countrymen, the cancer has spread more than you think! source of this cancer is still alive and in Islamambad.

shame on Media who is publishing News without confirmation.

before this News Govt. announced his Death Many Time. but he is Still Alive. “Jisay Allah Rakhy usay kon chakay”.

Well if Baitullah was the Enemy of Pakistan then USA is your Friend who is dictating to Govt of Pakistan….? and we are supporting to Pakistan Army and Govt, on the other hand we are busy in IDP’s Help. what a Double Standard.

i think we need the lesson of truth, honesty and Faith First, then we Can support some kind of group.

Baitullah Mehsud is Still Alive.
Please correct your Database

Down with America
Down with US supporters.

What next, I think first the government will use the Lota used by Mehsud to compare the DNA, can anyone explain how will they achieve that.

Where is the army plan to invade the trouble (err…. tribal) region, are they waiting for the Drones to finish all of their problems.

All the brouhaha from Pakistanis on use of Drones, and here is the first supposedly successful hit(May be we need to petition for a Drone hit on mullah FM as well!).

It is ok, good but we need to focus on such elements who want to destablize the countrty and give wrong lesson to the masses. Our system should address the problems why people want to move towards such elements. Our system need to be at the satisfaction of the general public. There should be developments, basic entities in FATA areas. There should be proper education for all, why we dont introduce Political Act in these areas as to enable the parties to work there and give awareness to the poor people of the area. Teach them PAKISTAN FIRST concept.

The taleban are only the symptom the cause of which are the lawyers, doctors & mullahs. “Many rivers to cross”.

This is good progress with chemotherapy.

With this showing a larger convergence of US’ enemy and Pakistan’s enemy, hopefully the focus will shift on rooting out the enemy and not on the ‘allowing of the drones in Pakistan airspace’.

The best thing about the way this chap was taken out – the State is beginning to speak a language the terrorist understand. Hit them where it hurts, no mercy, do what it takes, compromise is not a part of the ideology. And all this without jeopardizing conventional forces.

The next logical step will be for Pakistan to acknowledge and act against terrorist acts against India as ‘by a common enemy’. At that point the neighbors would have moved a step away from animosity and towards cooperation. There is no better time all nations stop paying lip service and to unite and subdue any and all terrorists.

Q Ali Said “All miseries looting,killing, lack of law and order, assaulting and snaching mobiles, and purse on bus stop, all these misfortunes, are not due to talibans, but due to the cruel kindness of corrupt, and irresponsible leaders, and politicians of the country.”

Ali, you are not the only one saying this. There are many like you saying the same things.

A question for you. If a person has heart attack, would you say he has many other illness such as flu, fever, rash on skin and many others and let us not attend to heart attack until all others are also attended.
People like you have failed to realize that attacks by militants, the deadly enemies of Pakistan, are the greatest threat to the existence of Pakistan, not looting and purse and mobile snatching and other offences. So do not brush aside the greatest threat by making all sorts of excuses.

I am not saying the other offence should be allowed to continue. All I am saying, the greatest threat should be attended right away and eliminated before doing other reforms.

We should pray to Allah to save Pakistan from its enemies. We should also pray to Allah to give wisdom and intelligence many people of Pakistan who have failed to recognize the immediate threat to the existence of Pakistan by Militant Talibans.

the evil is dead,but what about his insects which are spread in our society, and some of them are sitting in the assemblies.

Rather than providing intel to the American’s to perform drone attacks – why not use your substantial air force/army to eliminate these bad guys? Pretty clear that Pakistan is not committed to eliminating the Taliban.

No dead bodies ,no DNA testings, No eye witness accounts and Pakistan government started petting its own back for a remarkable success.This sound like Deja vu, remember this a few years ago, Pakistani government telling the world that Osama is dead and then president Musharraf was so adamant that a bunker buster has killed Osama in the Tora-Bora area so that America should stop looking for him. No body or DNA sample was produced even at that time. I cannot keep myself from thinking why like Sri Lanka who claimed that Prabhakaran was dead and later showed the world his dead body, before Pakistan starts petting its back, gather all the facts and produce some proof for the world that what they are saying is correct. Does any body in their FO believe that Pakistan is loosing credibility in the eyes of the world? May be pakistan government is hoping some of these baseless proclamations might come true which they need badly to pacify its people who are looking at heavens for something good to happen as their government has failed to deliver at all the fronts.

A National Black Day

The nation has been disgraced and dishonored.

Killing never solves problems except retaliation for those involved in it.

Time to hang head in shame for being a stooge nation with a dead conscience who has been labelled as the traitors that will sell their religion.

Time to mourn this state of lowness.

Baitullah was just one of the hydra headed monster that was created during the Zia era.

His death will weaken but not illiminate the enormous problem Pakistan faces within its borders with militancy. We have the same problems in Sind and Balochistan without the influence of Taliban.

An uneducated or poorly educated young man who is hungry and jobless will always be a target for any fringe group.

The government should make it clear to the tribes that keeping such elements among them will bring them more hardships.

Pakistan will have to develop these backward areas that are trapped in time and and abject poverty.

Each village that is cleared of militants, should be developed on an emergency scale to give contrast to the people. Unless better options are offered we will see a re emergence of this problem again either in the form of religious zealots or outright criminals or violent nationalists and the cycle will continue.

Keep the military operation going and not relent. Each new commander Taliban should know that he is a wanted man. He just cannot go on killing, beheading and training young boys to become suicide bombers. He will be eliminated in this fire too.

Most of these fighters are mercenaries and are allied with these groups for economic gain. If offered a better choice they will leave the movement, leaving only a handful of diehards to be defeated and eliminated.

No peace deal without total surrender.

Congratulation to all Pakistani Brothers and Sisters. Baitullah Mehsood and his murderous thugs are responsible for thousands of innocent Pakistani deaths. He was number one enemy of the state. Still there are many more, and must be dealt with.

Hullo, what’s going on? National and international newspapers are celebrating the death of Baitullah Masud and his two henchmen, Hakimullah and Waliur Rahman. Yet Reuters told us today that they aren’t dead. Are they the nosferatu, the undead, who will continue to suck the nation’s blood from beyond the grave? Or is this a horrible lapse? What happened to good old fashioned investigative journalism? Surely, the matter is too serious to be reduced to the level of mere twitter-chatter-blog.

This is real 14th August celebration especially for NWFP. It should be celebrated as Yom-e-Nijaat from Talibanization.
Never welcome them in any shape or form.

Taliban were not on true path thats why they were never welcome hapilly and no person or tribe stood with them against governement in operation. They were just creating a phobia to gain power. Now moderation with prosperity will grow.

After all this we should teach children of Swat and other places in schools, what happened? Why they were in camps? who killed their elders? and who are behind these evils. They should be thought that they should love their country and never encourage such movements in
pakistan and never become fundamentalist and be practical and objective in life.

Death of Baitullah Mehsud is not the only target of Pakistan. We need to look beyond Baitullah Mensud and his accomplices, arrest of Osama Bin Laden, his accomplices and sympathizers and all those people who wants to make Pakistan unstable.

If US think that after the death of Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan will be a safer place. If this is the conclusion of US government that US government must send travel advice to all those American Nationals to visit Pakistan, who have been kept on hold previously by US government’s travel alert for Pakistan.

It is a childish statement that after the death of one terrorist, Pakistan will become a safer place.

In my opinion, we need to look beyond the boundaries of our country that who are those people supplying arms and ammunition to the terrorists groups in Pakistan to fight a war with Pakistan’s government and to destabilize Pakistan?

Hi, Good afternoon to all. It is getting confirmed that Baituallah Mehsud is killed in the US drone attack in south Wazaristan. There are lot of Talibani people eager to take charge of the Tehrik-Pakistan. What will change big, i think, is nothing big is going to our country, because another person will fill the vaccum created by the demise of Baituallah Mehsud. As long as we are with US, Talibani people are not going to stop attacking our people. our government needs to understand the psyche of the Islamic nature. We failed to understand Islam. Therefore, fundamentalism is on rise in our region.

In my opinion the case of Baitullah Mehsud and Akbar Khan Bugti are the same. Both of them challenged the writ of the country and targeted people and assets of the country.
Why are the media and the politician differentiating between the two? In one case it is fine and acceptable and the other case (Bugti), considers as political assassination.

Baitullah or Waliur or Hakimullah – all are same.But why Pak is allowing US interferrence, This is more dangerous than Mehsuds.
Learn from Iraq or Afghan where the commoners are suffering.

George Bush for killing of hundreds of innocent Iraqis?

I think no insurgency will decrease with the death of Baitullah, but it will increase, as behind all this, foreign hand is involved as many times stated by Rehman Malik, and other Pakistani ministers.
But who are these foreigners.? why Mr. Malik and his company openly does not declare the the name of these foreign elements.-?
All miseries looting, killing, lack of law and order, assaulting and snatching mobiles, and purse on bus stop, all these misfortunes, are not due to talibans, but due to the cruel kindness of corrupt and irresponsible leaders and politicians of the country.
So everything we can not throw on talibans but we should also look in to our own collar.

I think no insergency will decrease with the death of Baitullah, but it will increase,as behind all this,foreign hand is involved as many times stated by Abdul Rehmasn Malik, and other pakistani ministers.
But who are these foreigners.? why Mr.Malik and his company openly does not declare the the name of these foreign elements.-?
All miseries looting,killing, lack of law and order, assaulting and santching mobiles, and purse on bus stop, all these misfortunes,are not due to talibans,but due to the cruel kindness of currupt,and irresponsible leaders, and politicians of the country.
So everything we can not throuw on talibans ,but we should also look in toour own collar.-Ali

“The tree of the wicked will never bear fruit.”

Its a shame how these names & characters have been created by the agencies & the press etc. to reign on terror on the poor & the oppressed.

This is apathy of the hour that an illiterate (I do not consider person with so called religious teaching as literate) man was representing Mehsud tribe. Such merciless brutes should be removed from the face of the earth.

Now the mainstream religious parties and those elements (Gen Zia’s cronies) supporting Taliban should come out with statement – these bunch of cowards have no self honour.

Quite refreshing to read all the comments here. I’d quite expected the same old lame excuses of poverty, no justice, American interests that Pakistani’s used to put forward in the past.

Seems to me, everything that Zia Ul wished for India, Pakistan got.

Hopefully, in the next decade, Ahmadees can be moslems again. Christians can be accused of tearing/burning the Koran and nobody gives a hoot.

Seriously do you think there is any chance for a non-moslem to be the president of a country that is 90% moslem? Don’t you think that is a redundant clause in your constitution? And haven’t you been in military dictatorship longer than you’ve had an elected president?

And anyway, doesn’t Islam prefer a ruler/land with justice to a ruler with faith and no justice?

I was rather sickened yesterday (08th August) to read the headlines ‘Good Riddance, Killer Baitullah’ in the Dawn.

One does not announce any person’s death in such terms, whatever he/she may have done. Baitullah was a human being, and his death was the loss of yet another human life. Whether or not he held other lives cheap, is a separate issue.

Morever, Dawn is a supposed to be our largest, oldest daily newspaper, and as such it has certain professional standards to uphold. This comment smacks of a kindergarten playground taunt and was in extreme poor taste.

Mehsud’s death is a big news. But more important achievement will be to defeat the extremist idealogy. Demise of Mehsud could be the beginning of the end of extremism. The religeous scholars must realize their responsibility. They must promote the culture of tolerance and co-existence with those who don’t agree with them.

The establishment must know it that you cannot win by pitching one section of the society against another.

We must abolish all type of quotas and base our decision purely on merit. All those who talk about democracy first must practice it within their own parties. We are the only so called democratic country where parties are run like family businesses.

Unless we change on whole, the elimination of an individual will not bring any long term good to the country.

What crime could be worst than breaking of a nation? When Pakistan was broken, no judge, no jury and no prosecutor were out there for making those people accountable who were responsible for break up of Pakistan. No one was held responsible from crime of breaking Pakistan, found guilty or punished. In that case one can assume that the people responsible for break of Pakistan were protected and provided with safe exit. This leads to wonder whose interest are being protected by our military might and the rulers. Do we really know or understand what is happening in Pakistan? I wonder if Baitullah Mehsud, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and such others were really after breaking Pakistan. In democracy we must respect opinion of all and work out difference by negotiations. Killings generate hate that will make Pakistan unsafe and unstable.

So far it is not confirm if Mr Masood is dead. Even if it is a confirm news then credit goes to US forces. So far pak army commandos had only a single achievement and that is to kill the old-aged Bhugti! Mubarak to Pak Army!!

Good riddance. I like this internal jihad.

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However, a government official in Peshawar said that both Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman had been killed in the clash.

Next target should be Musharraf. How can a country allow a dictator free for throwing away a democratically elected government? What message that will send to the would be future dictators waiting in the wings? He should be tried in a court of law.

Masood Haider Says:
August 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
The clueless political commentators and large segments of public who rile against the ‘drone attacks’ should think again. These attacks are directed against the most vicious enemies of the state of Pakistan and should be supported rather than vilified.
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I think you should now arrive at a consensus to have all the countries not just the US conduct drone attacks all over Pakistan. This will give Pakistan a new lease of life

Hurray!

Would this stop the conspiracy theorists from perpetuating their dellusions about Baituallah and his ilk being American fabrications. I am afraid not. Hope Pakistanis will begin to understand that the only way we get ourselves of our misery is by first acknowleding that we are threatened from within. The hate-propagating Mullahs, the corrupt politiatians, and inept leaders are all home grown—not exported by the west.

Congratulations to our people and armed forces who for days have been sacrificing their lives for us to fight these militants. Baitullah Mehsud is in no way justified for the killings of all the innocent people so his death is a victory for Pakistan. May Allah protect our land and people.

Another good news for Pakistanis…Hakimullah and (most likely) Waliur-Rahman DEAD as well. They were considered to be well groomed by thier master Mehsud…

Looks like a storm is waiting to start!
There could be an increase in suicide bombing in Pakistan, and perhaps increased caualities among the military if it were to go to Waziristan to prevent insurgents from the south, the east and the north of Waziristan from joining up with the Afghanistan Talibans on the west.
This would mean walking into the valley of death. The Pakistan army would be surrounded by the insurgents on all sides, movement on the rough ground would be full of problems, and the fighter there are experienced and must be familiar with the lay of the land.
Will the Pakistani army move into this trap? It most likely that it will.
The US has already warned that it is going to get worse before it gets better.

Whoever that was funding Mehsud will devise an alternative. The country that stands to lose most is China. What still intrigues me is that only the 2 Chinese engineers ever managed to come out alive after being “abducted”; surely, Beijing has a lot of hidden influence.

This is OK, but how you can deal with whole nation. Pakistan need to fix the main problem of food, and water. Just corruption is every where in the society.

Extremist Talibans/Suicide Bombers/Al-Qaida is an ideology … and an ideology can only be fought with a better ideology. Open Schools, teach them true Islam, teach them to love, give them respect, and bring them to the other side. We all need to read the Quran in a language that we understand also. It’s funny that we can read books upon books … but we do not read the translation of the Quran … to better understand it.

The entire nation of Pakistan deserves to be congratulated on the death of Baitullah Mehsud. He is perhaps the only case of me being happy at someone’s demise. Baituallah was more than just a strong warloard. He had become a symbol of Taliban’s challenge to the Pakistani state and people. Besides, Baitullah was a brilliant strategist in guerrila warefare who has taken with him his expertise. He will potentially be succeeded by other talented individuals such as Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-ur-Rehman. Hakimullah is widely reported to be very agressive and anti-Pakistan in terms of his animosity towards the state authorities and our populations’ lifestyle.

With Baitullah gone, the key is to not let our foot off the pedal. We have got to employ more resources of our own (and those of US) in order to eliminate all potential successors. Efforts must now be concentrated on eliminating Hakimullah and other potentials commanders along with spokespersons such as Muslim Khan. Simultaneously we must convince the Afghan taliban (via incentives such as brokering talks with US) to completely distance itself from TTP. Once the first two levels of their leadership are eliminated, the Pakistan Taliban will lose all order that seems to have made them a force to be reckoned. Make no mistake about this, the Taliban will try and react strongly to try and win back the initiative they have now lost. Our law-enforcement agencies will have to be vigiliant round the clock.

However, his death does not help eliminate the perception that the US is playing a double game by arming as well as killing the Taliban. So the anti-american sentiment remains to be very strong (for good reason) and the US must take-out more big names in order to win the Pakistani people who still feel that their interest is in our nuclear weapons.

Is he really dead? What evidence do we have?
Lets establish that first, before we start any discussion.

This is good news. However, militancy in Pakistan is a result of centuries of ignoring the unIslamic traditions creepinging into Islam. This wont stop until we shed intalerance, bigotry and hatered which has become part and parcel of our “Islamic values” (ex – intolerance against minorities, Hudood Ordinance, Blasphemy Law, etc).

To the Question Baitullah is dead what next — the natural answer would be how about Hakeemullah and Fazlullah — but the good news is that Hakeemullah died in a leadership SHOOT OUT with the other contender for Baitullah’s blood soaked legacy.

Thank you the United States of America for getting rid of the Monster Baitullah — for Pakistan.

Thanks Pakistan Army for taking these Islamist killer BULLS by their horns one by one and bringing them down to ultimate justice for their spree of murder and mayhem.

Ultimately it is US drone which killed this menace.I am wondering how is it the F16s or helicopter gun ships of Pakistani airforce could not do this?
Does this mean CIA has better target info from the region?

Mehsood’s death (if true) is not the end of terrorism, but it will start a new wave of terrorism in the country. We all should be prepared for it. Mehsood’s death is, no doubt, a big blow to the Taliban but it will not end the terrorism in Pakistan. Terrorism will only end when our government stop following American policy.We need to learn without American dictation and its aid,which has become Aids for us.

It is easy to paint baitullah mehsud as the sole cause of problems in Pakistan. The problem is the militant culture in pakistan as a whole. Why the double standards between mehsud and hafeez saeed? Was it proven in court of law that mehsud really killed Bhutto? The difference is one went against the US. This selective government support for a militant culture is the fundamental problem.

It is just one apparent victory if we talk about war, however this war is about ignorance and extremism, weapons can not win that.Long term success depends on development in those neglected areas, and law and order at all times.Which requires
political stability and very focused on development leadership. Then may be we can avoid having a new breed of these fighters.

His death won’t make a big impact on Talibans. A new leader will take over. But what we need is to distroy the Taliban mentality and it cannot be only done by physically distroying their movement. We have to change their mind.

Kill the next taliban leader if he acts same as previous leader Mehsud. Pakistan will be better off and much safer without these killers.

Raja M. Ahmed
USA

One baitulla wont make any difference, unless it is a war against terrorism, of all kinds and all sorts. Wish Pakistan well in its endeavours and peace to its people.Mubarak but sustain the fight and the vigil. I strongly feel that unless Pakistani rulers wage a war against poverty, illiteracy and deprivation, its fight against terror wont be complete. Anyway best of luck

I dont know what to express..who had heard of him a year back…hate mongering and a sense of misplaced superiority, denial of history and disrespect for other religions will lead to pakistan’s destruction…Jinnah must be turning in his grave

Pakistan is saved from grip of mehsud for time being for sure, lets see who is next.

The audience got bored with the soap. The director called it a shot. Finally, the bad man was killed. But the game will continue. The financers will find a new actor to fit-in his role. The writer will write a new script. The director will assign the new face a new task to play and create a havoc!

Mubarak to Pakistani nation for this blessed news. Pakistan Zindabaad. Mubarak again to all. and whats next. End of fundamentalism in our region and a new era of peace and prosperity.

The clueless political commentators and large segments of public who rile against the ‘drone attacks’ should think again. These attacks are directed against the most vicious enemies of the state of Pakistan and should be supported rather than vilified.

Who should be the next target? It’s very easy for governments to put the blame on unknown figures and do what ever they like. Sixty years of misery is not due to Taliban but due to the corrupt rulers and this pro-elite and oppressive setup.

One murderer dead does not mean end of all murders. The vigilance and struggle against these killers must continue.

I don’t want his dead body. I don’t want a martyr. These words were uttered by some wise man during a war.

The same holds true in this case. Nowadays, personalities do not matter as in yesteryears. We may have to reckon with a new wave of more zealous recruits.

His blood is on American hands and that spells disaster for us and Americans combined.

A common person at large is still unsure who Baitullah Mehsud is. What does he want? Is he a bad guy or a good guy? If a bad guy, what has he done and if he is a good guy then what good has he done for the mankind?

The enemies of Pakistan will make up another name and keep on attacking the country. This is all about making our religion bad in front of our own eyes. It is all about psychological warfare. Believe me, if Baitullah is dead then they will make-up another name and kill thousands of innocent people just to find and kill them.

Pakistan is not going to be safe unless ‘talibanisation’ is completely routed out not just from Waziristan but also from the whole of Pakistan. Therefore it is paramount that Pakistan should strike while the iron is hot and not become complacent hoping that Mehsud’s death would change the mindset of murderous militants. They must be eliminated.

The death of TTP leader will weaken the Taliban and will increase the morale of security forces and the people of Pakistan. A day will come when Pakistan will be free from terrorism.

Now tactics to fight against militants will change. It is not needed to start an operation same as in Swat as it caused massive displacement. Now operations on the basis of intelligence will be good. I think American drone attacks will get support by the death of the TTP leader and maybe our Mullahs will try to exploit the situation by using the name of America and making the situation more worse.

Baitullah Mehsud is only the most visible symptom. The death of Baitullah Mehsud at best will provide a temporary respite — mostly psychological.

I think now we can say this is the first step towards the victory against these militants but still we have to struggle hard to make the country a safer place for the Pakistani people and fight against terrorism.

They just killed a person who was not even put before a court of law, let alone prosecuted or convicted.

Where is the high standard of proof demanded as when convicting Hafiz Saeed or the LT operatives ?

It is a good news for Pakistanis. Congratulations.

there waliur_Rehman who’s the Deputy of Masud and may be the next Successer after him. Wali is also the Cousin of Masud and have most seats of choices in Taliban unions.
Next is Commander Hakeemullah who was a successful commander in the Kurram Agency Militant Operation. Hakeem was groomed by Masud and was well organized by him.He is next suggestion and may be opted for the leadership. Hakeem was also his personal Driver and was trusted by Masud.
These two and many others Commanders are well organized by Baitullah Masud and the Shura may suggest anyone.

The real porblem is the glorification of Jihad and the some other irrational things we do in the name of the religion. The long term solution for our current predicament is to focus more on social development, including a balanced education.

There are many terrorists but only the bearded ones are being hunted nowadays.

Other mullas.

There will be so many other militants dangerous than Mahsud and we pakistani afraid that they may be more foursely attack on different parts of the country. may Allah kill all the militants. Ameen
Dawn news is the Best one and we appreciate the reporters.thanks alot and please carryon with the best you can give.Allah will help you and you will inform us well enough as other media groups are only doing false things.

Mullah Omar, Maulana FM, Moulvi Fazlulah, Haqqani and other Meshuds to follow the same fate

Next would be another aggressive blood-thirsty killing machine.