"Some 11,000 terrorist attacks were carried out in the world last year, killing more than 14,600 people as against 651 attacks in 2004 that killed 1,907. Last year's figures are sharply higher due to the use of a new broader definition of terrorism": US report. The definition was not made public.
To start with, while we were still waiting for the UN legal committee's definition of terrorism, other than available in dictionaries, we are informed that the Bush administration has accomplished the task itself.
In fact, the US report speaks out the objective of the new broader definition - to bring maximum number of the targeted people into the terrorism net: "The Pentagon and the State Department have joined hands to chalk out a programme to counter tens of millions of real and potential militants.
The report has been released after about a fortnight after the US declared at the conference of 62 countries that they have to fight terror in accordance with the new definition for another 20 years against a large number of people who live in about hundred countries.
Pakistan needs to fight terrorism, but not the American brand. They called the great Nelson Mandela terrorist and also Yasser Arafat. Maybe a democratic Pakistan provides a better solution to the problem.
Another point to ponder is as to what may become of the humanity if future wars are also fought because of warriors themselves defining the militaristic words as may suit them.
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