Osama bin Laden is dead and buried… well dumped into the sea that is (It is interesting to see the a flood of tweets all likening this to the way the remains of Megatron, the villainous leader of the Decepticons in the blockbuster movie Transformers, were thrown into the sea, but the he later made a comeback in the movie’s sequel from his watery grave). However, it is not over yet… in fact far from it. Bin Laden was nothing more than a symbolic figure in the ranks of al Qaeda now. The organisation’s operations were being run by others. But nevertheless, it is a great moral victory and the death of perhaps the most hated man after Adolf Hitler would be a great blow to terrorists. But even as the US can celebrate the sweet taste of revenge for what the bin Laden did on September 11, 2001; the Pakistanis would have to prepare for a very terrible backlash from al Qaeda operatives and the Taliban.
After the news about bin Laden’s broke out, a bomb blast near a mosque in Charsadda killed a woman and three children and wounded five others. This incident might not be related to the news about bin Laden’s death, but the possibility cannot be counted out.
In an audio message issued to the Pakistani media from an undisclosed location, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has said that it would avenge the killing of the al Qaeda chief. The most significant part of the message was that Pakistan is now the Taliban’s first target and the US the second. The death of the world’s most wanted man would dramatically alter the current scenario of policies and strategies and Pakistan would have to make changes accordingly.
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