The latest terrible attack in Karachi resulting in widespread destruction and loss of lives including a mother and child going to school was a heart rending event. It shows complete lack of coordination and control by law enforcing agencies under the provincial government. We must create a department of homeland security like the one in the US which has prevented any major terror attack since 9/11 in the US.
Such a department achieves integration and coordination of all the intelligence and law enforcing agencies of the government so as to monitor and oversee the web of terror threats for pre-empting them before these are enacted.
The example of the Times Square bomber in New York who was caught while boarding a plane is a proof of the efficiency of the homeland security department. We must change some faces that do not inspire confidence. The docile Chief Minister Sindh and the evasive Federal Minister of Interior need to be replaced by some dynamic persons drawn from the available pool of political personalities and intelligence agencies personnel.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
