- The enemy succeeds when the guards nap
The wave of terrorism is receding all over the world, one of the reasons being the more efficient anti-terror measures adopted by governments. One day the grisly chapter of the activity will be over. The common man however cannot be satisfied by the declining graph of casualties. For him any horrendous terrorist act is a blot on the performance of the administration and its agencies.
The Terrorism Index report released by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace, maintains the number of people killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistan fell to 956 last year, a reduction of 12 per cent as compared to the previous reporting year. We are also told that Pakistan, which ranked fourth in terrorist casualties, is now number five. Good, but by no means enviable. The country has to be terrorism free. As things stand, major terrorist incidents continue to take place in the country orchestrated by various networks in pursuit of their peculiar agendas.
On Wednesday, 15 bullet-riddled bodies of job seekers from Punjab who intended to cross over illegally into Iran were found in Buleda near Turbat, presumably killed by Baloch separatists. The same day a police SP was shot dead in Quetta along with three family members. Last week a DIG and two others were killed in a blast in the city. The NSC has expressed deep concern and condemned the action. Regrets and condemnations alone will however inspire neither confidence nor hope in the common man who wants an effective plan that puts an end to these killings at the earliest.
Everybody knows foreign agencies are behind some of the attacks. Also that some want to stop work on the CPEC. What one expects from the administration is action rather than a repetition of these charges ad nauseam. While agencies of the hostile countries are both ruthless and resourceful, what needs to be remedied is the unsatisfactory performance of those responsible for providing security to the citizenry. The enemy succeeds only because he is ahead of the security agencies in efficiency
