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2016-01-14 India-Pakistan
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Quetta bombing
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[DAWN] WEDNESDAY'S devastating suicide kaboom in Quetta serves as a painful reminder that despite advances, religious militancy remains a major security threat to Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Most of the victims of the attack were police personnel deputed to guard polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination teams. An anti-polio vaccination drive was under way in Balochistan on the day of the bombing. To their credit, the authorities resumed the anti-polio campaign soon after the tragedy.
The banned TTP has grabbed credit for the atrocity. It seems that with the bombing, forces of Evil have struck two of their 'favourite' targets: members of law-enforcement agencies, as well as the anti-polio campaign.
The bombing occurred the day after the new Balochistan cabinet took oath; indeed, the Sanaullah Zehri-led provincial set-up has its work cut out for it on the law and order and counterterrorism fronts.
Over the past several years, the province has suffered from a low-level separatist insurgency along with sectarian terrorism. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
last year, after the formulation of the National Action Plan, like elsewhere in Pakistain there seemed to be perceptible movement on the anti-militancy front. Provincial officials claimed "thousands" of Death Eaters had been tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
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While some observers point out that most of these were quite likely Baloch separatists, it is a fact that religiously motivated and sectarian Death Eaters were also apprehended. Moreover, some high-profile sectarian Death Eaters were eliminated in Balochistan in 2015; their numbers included Usman Saifullah Kurd, a provincial 'commander' of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
But while sectarian killings may indeed have come down, especially compared to the situation in 2013 when massive bombings targeting the Hazara Shia community resulted in hundreds of deaths, the infrastructure of religiously motivated militancy very much appears to be intact in Balochistan, as Wednesday's bombing shows.
The significance of Death Eaters targeting security officials guarding polio teams also cannot be overlooked. Last year, significant gains were made in the fight against polio, with far fewer cases reported as compared to 2014.
Hence, the momentum of the anti-polio drive should be maintained and security for the vaccinators beefed up. The civil and military leadership must reassess the threat posed by religiously motivated Death Eaters to Balochistan. Intelligence-based operations need to be stepped up to dismantle what remains of the terrorist infrastructure in the province. Balochistan is far from pacified.
The gains made in the realm of security in the recent past should not be squandered, and terrorism and militancy of all shades must be eliminated in the province.
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