Resetting of priorities neededThursday was one of the worst days in the War on Terror, not merely for the armed forces, but for the country as a whole, with 13 security personnel losing their lives in two different incidents. The incidents reflected two aspects of the dangers facing our security forces, with seven Frontier Corps personnel being cut down by gunfire on the Makran Coastal Highway while escorting an OGDC team going from Gwadar to Karachi, along with six security guards, who were all retired servicemen, and whose deaths will cause pain in their old units. India’s RAW has been heavily involved in instigating such attacks, when armed forces personnel are dying in such numbers; RAW is too facile an explanation to be acceptable. Particularly worrisome is that neither attack represents random terror, but is targeting the armed forces. The focus must be on the prevention of such attacks, not vague ascriptions of blame after the event.

Source: Pakistan Today October 16, 2020 16:41 UTC