The nation today is sharply divided into anti and pro terror parties. Those parties and leaders who oppose suicide bombing unconditionally are clearly positioned against terror and, hence, can be described as anti-terror. Others who project suicide bombing as 'a reaction' to what they dub as 'wrong policies of the government' are pro-terror. Needless to say these parties are harping the same tune that is played by propaganda material of the terrorists. The pro-terror parties and terrorists have one thing in common; both consider suicide blasts to be a valid response to what they consider to be wrong and unacceptable. The parliament in its forthcoming session must take a clear and unambiguous stand against the curse of suicide bombing. Suicide bombing is unIslamic, it invites foreign meddling, it destabilizes the country. Above all it is a war against our democracy. There can be far more peaceful, and entirely non-violent, reactions to domestic injustice and foreign domination. Suicide bombing by non-state actors must be condemned unconditionally because it has no justification whatsoever. The parties that do not oppose this threat to human civilization unambiguously, or do so with some strings attached, are chips of the same block as the terrorists who do it. -B.A. MALIK, Islamabad, via e-mail, October 6.