Yet, knowing the TTP’s preference for suicide bombs, Pakistan’s streets aren’t exactly heaving with indignant protests. Instead, ‘civil society’ issues statements and urges print and electronic media to stop the ‘appeasement’. “They do so (the appeasement) by terming Taliban and jehadi groups as ‘stakeholders’, referring to terrorists as ‘commanders’ and ‘ameers’, permitting them to issue fatwas at the slightest hint of dissent and enjoying a ratings boost from the ensuing, violent mayhem and glorifying terror by showing images of heavily-armed, masked criminals, as if they were heroes,” says human rights activist Tahera Abdullah.Other, solitary voices are also being raised against the TTP’s deadly bombing run in Pakistan. “The (government) policy should be to hit the terrorists so hard that we prevent all future attacks, anywhere, ever,” writes the Daily Times.