While listening to the news bulletin this morning, according to which some unknown men attacked a security checkpost at Nasirabad in Balochistan and killed two soldiers, one realises that a lot more needs to be known about the true state of insurgency in the province. Who are these unknown men?
Why are they targeting security forces? Are they truly freedom fighters? Are they interested in bringing prosperity to their deprived province or are they interested only in dismantling the Pakistani state by forming alliances with Pakistan’s hostile neighbours and regional powers?
Whatever the case may be, one thing is known for certain that the security apparatus is seen by them as the only force that has the capacity and the will to resist against such nefarious desires. The terrorist tendency to attack the law enforcers to inflict a blow to their resolve and to lower motivation levels is certainly not a new phenomenon in the backdrop of the war on terror.
These unknown men are behind the worsening law and order situation of the province where the incompetence and absence of the provincial government provides ample space for them to carry their evil activities unashamedly. The killings and kidnappings, the threats and targeted attacks on specific communities and groups is something that has increased as they have entrenched their tentacles into the society. Why hasn’t anyone ever mentioned these ‘unknown men’ and highlighted them as the ones that are fuelling the insurgency in Balochistan?
It is the prime duty of the provincial government to expose the true identity of these unknown men and to unearth their affiliations and links with terror outfits so that some clarity might be provided to the current state of uncertainty.
LUBNA HAMEED
Rawalpindi