Battle against terrorism of Pakistan is getting nowhere. Since  the Peshawar tragedy of December 16, 2014 when the nation was brutally shaken out of endemic slumber to act decisively against this diabolical curse, which now seems a distant past,  nothing appears to be working and virtually seems the end of the beginning.

On 13^th May terroristattack on a bus in Karachi carrying Shia Ismaili Muslims killing at least 47 people and leaving behind a pamphlet of ISIS claiming responsibility for the grisly attack signifies government's total failure to root out terrorism from the country.

According to media reports it was a well organized attack. Six heavily-armed militants donning police uniforms were on three motorcycles. First they opened fire on the bus just near the Dow Medical College and then entered the bus when it stopped at Safoora Chorangi, Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi and killed people at close range.

After the Peshawar tragedy everyone had thought that the sacrifices of innocent children would not go waste and Pakistan would finally get rid of the curse of terrorism.  

On 16 December 2014, 145 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a school run by Pakistan Army in Peshawar which included 132 school children ranging between eight and eighteen years of age.

Seven gunmen, all Arabs, Chechen and Afghans  affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), had conducted the gruesome attack. They had entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children with automatic weapons showing no mercy for even small children and women. One class teacher who tried to defend small children in her class was even burnt alive.  

The gruesome attack was condemned worldwide and Pakistan was able to garner much needed international support to act decisively against extremist outfits within Pakistan.  Its callousness cut across all sections of society and rallied Pakistan society on one agenda: take the fight against terrorism to its logical end.

For the first time in many years the Army, the government and the civil society were on one page. Domestic and international media considered it as the watershed moment in Pakistan history.

But for the 'tragic flaw' of Nawaz government the fight against terrorism could not go much further to realize even its initial objectives. Torn between his loyalty to the House of Saud which is the main proponent of Deobandi school of thought in Pakistan and his obligation to his nation, Mr. Nawaz could not act decisively against terrorists; sole product of Deobandi seminaries in Pakistan.

It is not coincidence that almost all terrorists come from Deoband, Wahabi and Ahle Hadees seminaries in Pakistan and abroad run under the patronage of Wahabi House of Saud.  What Taliban, ISIL and Al-Qaida are doing now all over the world, exactly the same the House of Saud did at home in 1925 when they had vandalized the graves of Ahlul Bait^(AS) and the wives of Holy Prophet ^PBUH.

In a country that does not take education seriously the government is not able to count how many Madaras there are operating in the country. Their number is considered  between 12000 to 40000 and in some areas they are more than the underfunded public schools.  They are mostly funded by Saudi Arab to promote Wahabism and on yearly basis produce hundreds of thousands young men who have no future in current Pakistan set up.

Personalities promoting religious extremism and terrorism like Mufti Naemi of Banouri Town, Karachi, Mullah Abdul Aziz of Red mosque, Islamabad, Ludhyanvi, Lakhvi, Farooqi, Ramadhan Mangel, Haq Nawaz Janghavi, Riaz Basra,  Ilyas Kashmiri, Hafiz Saeed, Akram Lahori,  Ashrafi, Asmatullah Muawiyah etc. are the product of these seminaries (Madaras.)

Government's tall claims to tackle terrorism head on have fallen far short of everyone's expectations. The first constructive step should have been an intrusive inquiry of what's going on inside these seminaries and the sources of their funding; which has never happened. 

The Karachi carnage of innocent men, women and children of Ismaili Shias on Wednesday should have provided impetus to the government to act, instead, it is trying to pass the buck on to India.

Have we ever wondered how could RAW interfere in our lives like this if we did not have such lunatics among us or we had not allowed them to flourish like this among us?