The country's top military and intelligence brass including army chief Raheel Sharif attended an official funeral ceremony for the Quetta carnage victims, whose bodies were placed in coffins draped in white and borne by soldiers in dress uniform. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif later flew to Quetta to chair a high-level security meeting.
Balochistan is beset by sectarian strife, Islamist violence and an on-off separatist insurgency that has lasted for decades. In August, a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital claimed by the Islamic State group and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Pakistan Taliban killed 73 people, including many of the city's legal community which had gone there to mourn the fatal shooting of a colleague.
It appears that terrorists have chosen this province for their activities following a very stern action against them by Pakistan army in tribal areas of the country. Hence the need for greater security measures to deal with the challenge. The attack on police college constitutes a new challenge to our policymakers.
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