Sir: The Taliban have committed a crime most horrid and they must be punished. They have brazenly admitted to the murder and beheading of 23 young Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers, young men who were doing their duty to protect the nation. That a video has also been released to prove this claim only goes to show that we are dealing with a bunch of criminally insane psychopaths who must be put down, not entertained in any kind of dialogue. The government must act now or is it going to be just these murderers who will be doing all of the proactive work? DINA ALI Lahore