“How, to tackle the wave of terrorism on war footing within Pakistan.’?

“How, to tackle the wave of terrorism on war footing within Pakistan.’”

It is internationally known that since 9/11 unfortunate and sad incident and the US attack on Afghanistan to chase Osama bin laden the prime accused belonging to Al-Qaeda. Pakistan joined hands with the US and the NATO forces as a frontline ally. This resulted in Pakistan becoming the main target of the terrorists to bear the brunt within that region. The bad news was when the foreign funded and aided fully armed insurgency under the name of Tehreeki-Taliban Pakistan surfaced in its northern areas of Swat and FATA and spread terror amongst the locals there, trying to forcefully implement their own brand of Islam. However the brave Pakistan army launched an operation against these fully armed with sophisticated militants, eliminating most of them and some escaping to flee to the southern region where lay the bastion of evils strong hold the Mehsud tribe of South Waziristan.But it wasn’t for very long that they could breath easily there too, because the valiant Pakistani Armed forces have launched operation Nijat to completely eliminate them from the soil of Pakistan forever. However such actions against evil never are without some repercussions and unfortunately for the Pakistani citizens it turned into a nightmare of string of terrorist suicidal blasts and armed terror attacks in nearly most of its northern Pakistan’s main cities like Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore. Even today while the brave soldiers of the Pakistan army fight and steadily gains ground to advance swiftly and successfully into the militants strongholds located in S.Waziriztan.The terror still abates in the form of a reaction, within the cities as an last cowardly resort upon the innocent citizens by the militants stooges holed up there, thinking this would browbeat and shake the moral the people and seek of the army to stop their operation. However these cowardly criminal terrorist little know that the courageous citizens of this motherland will under no circumstances get frightened or loose heart. They know for sure that one fine day soon these criminals shall be forever erased from our Pakistani soil by their brave soldiers by whom they all proudly standby and support and salute.

However, the need of the hour does still remains that quick time emergency preventive actions be devised on how to affectively deal with the threat that we are facing in the cities in the form of suicide bomb blasts and terrorism related raids in physical attacks form on educational institutions and sensitive installations. I personally feel that to control this threat immediately the government needs to make the terrorist” ineffective” and then go about how to them apprehend them,” physically”. Bare handed terrorists are like a toothless and fang trimmed tiger. I am sure you shall agree!

To explain what I mean by making them “ineffective” is that their sources of arms and ammunition needs to be plugged tightly to deprive them of such materials which are instrumental in causing death and destruction in large areas causing causalities in huge numbers. Funding of cash isn’t that important as is starving them of this equipment and material they easily get to lay hands on, to make bombs and mind you the vehicles in which they easily reach their targeted destinations. It is obvious they buy and obtain such material either from the local market or from some external source that is apart from the vehicles they use. The, RDS used in the making of bombs isn’t some thing which one can purchase over the counter, like buying an aspirin for a common headache? From what I understand locally its permitted sale is to licensed and registered organization engaged mainly in the mining or the construction projects such as of roads to cut mountains through explosives. Besides RDS there are many other components which are used in the making of a bombs planted or fitted in suicide Jackets. The latter type of bombing (Suicide) has been seen as the most effective threat from the terrorist and most difficult or safe to say uncontrolled by the law enforcement and security agencies till date.

The first effective measure for how to go about starving them would be to identify the external routes from where these materials and equipments possibly flow in and reach their hands and then tightly plug them. To achieve this border security at the Afghanistan and Indian borders has to become very vigilant and check posts should ensure through checking of all vehicles bringing in goods from across the borders. Simultaneously, internally the inter-city and inter provincial routes should also have fixed and mobile checking squads. It is not only the land route that needs to be watched but the coastal areas,as well.. They Navy and the coast guards should keep a vigil on the fishing boats as it is quite possible that this could be the most vulnerable one through which the arms and the explosives can be smuggled in large quantities. For the curtailment of explosive materials being obtained from internal sources, falling into their hands thorough investigation by means of checking the records of those organization and contractor to whom these RDS material was sold legally its present stock and the amount used by them on the project should be made accountable and verified. Car snatching and lifting should be taken seriously for it is this means by way of which these terrorist obtain transportation for themselves for reaching their destination and for monitoring the targets for planning an attack .At the first report of a stolen vehicle by the victim the police should act seriously to recover the vehicle. Which unfortunately till now has never been given much importance.

A media campaign should be launched to educate the ordinary public on how they can be helpful in identifying the suspicious elements with their areas. And the authorities should announce special numbers for the public to inform on.

As regards to the bigger group like TTP our brave Pakistan army’s soldiers have taken care of them in the Swat operation and inshallah very soon would eliminate the rest of the poisonous vipers during the ongoing operation launched in the South Waziristan by them.

Pakistan Zindabad and Pakistan Army Zindabad.