This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial "Police killings in Karachi" carried by the newspaper yesterday. According to it, "in several recent incidents only the police were targeted. That seems to be a well thought-out strategy aimed at causing fear among the populace and creating general chaos to be able to operate more freely."
The newspaper has argued that the police are easy targets for the terrorists because they are not properly prepared to deal with the threat both in terms of training and equipment. In Karachi alone, 270 policemen have been killed since the start of the Rangers operations in the city. "This must not go on. The police personnel being the first line of defence against the menace of terrorism, ought to get every possible help that they need to improve efficiency as well as their own safety," according to newspaper.
That Karachi has an unfortunate history of ethnic, sectarian killings and bomb blasts is a fact. The people of the city of teeming millions have heaved a sigh of relief under the Rangers-led operation against terrorists, extremists and their facilitators/financiers. The attack on policemen by a splinter group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TPP) has underscored the need for more co-ordinated and efficient roles of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies. No complacency please.
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