While the attack is yet another lapse in security, I'm amazed and horrified at the comments I've read above. Saddening and downright disturbing.
Terrorists being dressed in police uniforms doesn't mean that somebody from inside is involved, although that is highly likely as well. The attackers on GHQ were in military uniform. Uniforms have been available at military stores throughout the country since time immemorial. You could just go and buy one. After the GHQ attack, they tried to make sure that uniforms weren't sold without seeing ID but of course we know our middle class businessman and it is extremely easy to get hand on a uniform.
Now dressed in police uniform, nobody would have expected them to attack and that too in the middle of the night. I can clearly imagine the cops posted at the hospital to having imagined that it was just another duty to stand up and sit down day after day without any activity. Suddenly, they are taken by surprise and in the event of an attack, the initiative and the surprise lies with the terrorists. Nobody seems to have noticed that 5 police officers have embraced Shahadat or maybe like our media the word Shahahdat is reserved for the military only b/c whenever a cop lays down his life, it is hardly mentioned, and is labeled "janbahaq" for in our media's and people's terms there are three levels:- shaheed, janbahaq and then halak. Cops deserve the second one only.
It is entirely idiotic to blame Rehman Malik, that is of course based on hatred that spews from his association with AAZ. People cannot distinguish between provincial forces handling an event and a federal ministry handling one. Govt of Punjab did not request or perhaps even rejected MoI help in this regard. MoI had nothing to do with the event. You people would have loved had his name been been preceded by a Lt Gen(R). I cannot imagine how much lame people can get. Of course there should be a national CT policy but the NACTA set up to perform this function hasn't even started functioning thanks to institutional rivalries and certain people not willing to let go of their powers from their organizations in this regard. If you know anybody in NACTA, he can attest to the fact that high ups from certain organizations have created trouble for NACTA for they are unwilling to let go of their powers in this regard.
The Govt of Punjab having been hand in hand with LJ is now paying for playing fiddle. Besides it is you, me, and everybody else who is complacent of the attacks. For a dozen years the ultra-Sunnis provided support to the SSP and LJ to kill Shias. The ultra-Shias provided support to Sipah-e-Muhammad and Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqah Jafaria to counter the SSP and LJ attacks. In addition everybody amongst us silently stood or chipped in to the boxes of the "jihadi tanzeemen" that would flood the mosque gates after friday prayers throughout the '80s and the '90s. If you claim to have never seen JM, LJ, JuD, LT, LI, LO or any other organization outside your mosques collecting money and recruiting people; then you are lying, plain lying.
We stood still and watched our country getting grasped further into the jihadi problem. When around 1996, the state especially the Govt of Punjab resolved to get rid of sectarian terrorism, the people's will was with it (to some extent) and the Punjab Police was able to eliminate sectarian terrorism to a large extent by '98. It is considered one of PP's major achievements. But of course the non sectarian but Chechnya, Bosnia, Philippines, Burma and Kashmir jihad organizations remained free and in many cases were supported by our favourite mother of all intelligence agencies.
Our state is complacent of having supported these organizations. The menace outgrew by massive proportions and nobody can ever control militant organizations. As you sow, so shall you reap.
