Financial Times report today that the “Pakistan army regained
control of the country’s largestairport in the southern port city of Karachi
after an overnight battle with suspected Taliban militants who stormed the
airport late on Sunday, June 8, disguised as policemen and airport guards.
“At least 29 people,
including 10 militants, died in the battle between the attackers and commandos
which raged for more than five hours around Jinnah International Airport, said
authorities.
“A separate suicide bombing in the country’s southwest killed 23
Shia pilgrims returning from Iran on Sunday, authorities said.
“The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the airport
attack, saying it was a message to the government ‘that we are still alive’.
“Two senior Pakistani intelligence officials said the gunmen
appeared to be of Uzbek nationality. “We’ll carry out DNA tests to be certain
but their facial features suggest they may be Uzbeks” said on Monday, Maj. Gen.
Rizwan Akhtar, a senior army official who oversaw the operation.”
Congressional Research Services of the USA reports that at least
70,133 Uzbeks are living as Afghan refugees in Pakistan since 2005. An increase
in their number is estimated most probable. The suspect perpetrators, it is believed, were
already in Pakistan somewhere and did not come from outside for the job. But
how did they pass thru. airport security armed with bombs and rockets is a puzzle to
guess.
Dear readers, here I would like to draw your attention to a paragraph
of my earlier article, “Pakistan v/s. Taliban”, wrote and published in my blog,
“www.IsrarHasan.com” on 22 Feb. 2014. It runs as follows:
“TTP
have plenty of hideouts within Pakistan and outside Pakistan. The USA exit from
Afghanistan will provide a wider opportunity for Taliban to achieve their lost
regime. Here in Pakistan they are mingled with locals like sugar and salt in
water from Peshawar to Karachi. Moreover, they have friends inside the country,
the many fundamentalist parties throughout Pakistan, who are members of
Pakistan parliament as well as those disbanded by the government. They
are now blood-cell in the body of Pakistan. The two big brothers, the USA
and Russia could not overcorstme them. This many-headed creature has no
physical body to crush them; no central place to capture them. Pakistan is now
victim of its own venomous snake.”
Can
Pakistan Army clean up insurgents in South and North Waziristan with any
fruitful and potential outcome without sending back all the Afghan refugees
from Pakistan? The current army actions will not damage Taliban insurgencies as
much as it will damage and uproot the local tribal lives and properties,
resulting in people’s hatred and opposition to government and army alike. No
government plans for peace and security or any schemes of social, economical or
political developments can materialize without first solving the issue of all
sorts of terrorism.
To
achieve the goal of peace inside, security outside, progress and developments
in the country, first a unanimous understanding between the government and its
military forces is obligatory before any action for reform in governance or before
any military actions to quell insurgencies.
The current scenario goes diametrically opposite to each other which
make them closer and closer to national devastation.
ISRAR HASAN
9 JUNE 2014
Hitt2010@gmail.com
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