Essay: The Curse of Terrorism

Essay:   The Curse of Terrorism

Outlines:
1. Introduction.
2. Terrorism is quite an organized activity.
3. Terrorist organizations operate with the support of foreign aid.
4. Different causes of terrorism. .
5. Steps against terrorism.
6. Effects of terrorism in Pakistan.
7. Army operations against terrorism.
8. Conclusion.
Terrorism means use of illegal, immoral and unethical force and threats against persons, groups or governments for political, religious, economic, revengeful or other purposes. Terrorism is not a modern activity. Hundreds of years ago, societies were not as organized as they are today with modern facilities of roads, telephone, regular police force, and so on. Then heads of strong groups of people, robbers and warriors made use of force and threats to life and property.
Now, terrorism itself is quite an organized activity. There are terrorist organizations or societies that train terrorists for their purposes. Sometimes, these organizations are supported by foreign governments. The most devastating international terrorist actions of this century until now were the 11th September, 2001 aerial attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. Thousands of people from America and other countries were killed and property worth billions of dollars was destroyed. All this caused huge economic losses to our country and other countries, immediate suffering to the Afghans and a war situation in South Asia.
A terrorist organization operating in a country usually gets money and weapons from foreign governments to promote state terrorism. It also joins hands with forceful groups or parties opposed to the government inside the country.
Nations or big communities in a country use terrorist methods to gain greater freedom or independence.
The causes of terrorism in different parts of the world should be removed on an emergency basis with the help of the world powers and the UN. The chief causes are injustices done to the Palestinians in the Middle East, to the people of Kashmir
in South Asia, to the Chechens in South Russia and to the poor people of the Third World in east, west, south and north.
Terrorism needs to be checked very carefully. The different governments should force all the people illegally present in their countries to leave. They should arrange to stop the illegal flow of arms and, money from abroad. They should have effective secret services, which can report all kinds of terrorist plans. The deployment of the police or the army on a large scale can be discussed in the mass media and in the elected assemblies.
Terrorism has a great effect on the people living in a society. At least 60,000 people have been killed in Pakistan due to tenor attacks. Since the beginning of the war on terror, the economic losses have been measured at 120 billion dollars. After the incident of 9/11, Pakistani and Afghani people are the victims of terrorism. Pakistan has lost 83 billion dollars plus 60,000 people’s lives, including civilians and armed forces, due to the war against tenorism. People stay home due to terrorism and they are afraid to meet any unknown person. These things destroy their social life. Due to terrorism, the Western countries have started hating the immigrants, especially from Muslim community, because label of terrorism has been attached with Muslims. The terrorists attack.mostly on religious place like mosques, churches, and temples and on public places. The main purpose of terrorism is to harm people mentally and socially.
In recent times, Pakistani Army is the only army in the world who has defeated terrorism by doing operations like Radd-ut-Fassad and Zarb-e-Azb. Through these operations against terrorism, Pak Army brought peace and stability in the region. The other countries Should do the same to get rid from this virus.