Those who claim to have targeted Navy personnel on the Maran Coast are not associated with those killing Hazaras in Quetta. However, it shows that terrorism cannot be blamed on religious extremists any more than nationalists. It also shows that Balochistan is afflicted by sectarian terrorists as well as violent secessionists, and the National Action Plan must be framed so as to include nationalists. Along with implementing NAP, it is necessary to find jobs for the youth of Balochistan, so that extremists of whatever stripe find potential recruits too busy with their own affairs to listen. The need of its ministers to strike heroic poses must give way to the need for results.

Source: Pakistan Today April 18, 2019 20:03 UTC