Mr Rehman Malik, our celebrated and versatile Interior Minister, has revealed on the floor of the house that next on the list in target killing is himself, then Sherri Rehman and the third one is Fauzia Wahab. If he is so confident in his prediction, then he should also know through his sources who are the killers or planners. All the target killings are planned well in advance as the planners carry out surveillance of their targets to see how best the target can be attacked without being caught. The killers must escape safely after their crime. If our counter intelligence is effective, the planners or the handlers can be apprehended before the assassins go for a kill.
The killers are hired and they get paid once the target is eliminated. It is a clear failure on the part of our intelligence agencies if they are unable to arrest the masterminds or the handlers of the killers. The case in point is the recent murder of our Federal Minister Mr Shahbaz Bhatti. It is a very sad and tragic incident. The Home Minister must take full responsibility for this serious security lapse and must resign. There is no excuse for him to stay as Home Minister anymore.
Not only he has failed in providing security to the common man throughout his tenure of three years, he has failed to protect his own Federal Minister and attacks on other VIPs especially when he always claims to have prior definite information. He has been bluffing the nation after each bomb blast or suicide attack by saying that he has cornered the militants and very soon all would be eliminated. Lately, he has been entrusted the job of handling the case of Raymond Davis and he is trying hard to get him freed not realising its repercussions the government will face.
MUHAMMAD AZHAR KHWAJA
Lahore
