Paksitan Rangers during Flag Hoisting Ceremony at Wahga Border |
One gets hopeless when one looks
at the internal and external situation of Pakistan because on the one hand
there are ever increasing problems of public while on the other hand we have
the promises and claims of rulers that country is developing by leaps and
bounds. For the 95% of the public there is a long unending dark night of
pessimism where neither there prestige nor life is safe. People prefer to beat
a thief or dacoit to death rather than handing him over to Police which shows
distrust of public over courts and law of the state. Situation has deteriorated
that laborers working in Balochistan are killed by their employers on demanding
wages delayed for a year and these murders are given the name of killings by
Baloch insurgents or terrorists. Law enforcement agencies also close the files
without considering that why before every Eid ul Adha laborers from South Punjab
are murdered in the name of Baloch insurgency. One of the recent examples is the burning of
Christian couple in the Brick Kiln by the owner allegedly for some financial dispute
which he tried to cover under the garb religious dispute, gathered a huge crowd
alleging Christian couple for blasphemy and burnt them.
International
analysts are taking blast at Wahga border after the flag hoisting ceremony as a
failure of the govt. The news report published in Daily Nawa-i-Waqt on 28 October 2014 has become the hot topic for discussion in which the efficiency of
Intelligence agencies have been appreciated that they had issued threat alert
of a possible attack over Wahga border. Federal Interior Ministry communicated
these intelligence reports to Provincial Ministry but did not follow up that
what steps have been taken by provincial govt. on such a grave matter. Astonishingly,
same news was published by many other newspapers stating that terrorists have
arrived in Lahore to attach Wahga border but Punjab govt. did not wake
otherwise it was possible to avert the terrorist plan. Provincial govt. might
have closed Wahga border for few days, installed heavy detectors, conducting
search operation in the nearby populated areas, checking every passenger coming
towards the Wahga border but nothing was done. According to the govt. experts
the suicide jacket weighed about 25 kilograms containing ball bearings and iron
nails besides explosive material. This shows terrorists wanted to target people
on large scale in which they succeeded. On the first day 60 people got martyred
while many of the injured have also died.
The
seriousness of the govt. can be judged from this statement of the govt. that
Rangers was responsible for the security of the Wahga border but was suicide bomber
flown to Wahga border directly or entered through Indian side that Punjab govt.
was unable to apprehend him despite of the warning issued that was even published
in the local newspapers? Even if a well built person is carrying 25 Kg weight
his walking style and look changes that is why suicide bombers have to wear
shawls or loose clothings, moreover, in the past the weight of the suicide
jackets used was not more than 7-8 Kgs. It is also impossible that suicide
bomber arrived the targeted place by foot, he may have traveled through public
transport or was already hiding in the nearby populated area. Possibility of suicide
bombers coming from Indian side by hiding in the Indian cargo trucks cannot be
ruled out as well.
The
attached picture shows the satellite image of the Wahga border which shows the
road used by heavy traffic besides the flag hoisting ceremony venue, after
parking area there is the office of custom clearance and immigration. Anyone can
easily access the blast place after getting out of the parking area of vehicles
coming from India without confronting custom and immigration officials. It is
not necessary that suicide bomber had wanted to blow up the ceremony venue as
this might have resulted in the deaths of Indian soldiers and Indians near the
border as well besides Pakistanis. That is why suicide bomber blew up himself outside
the venue where a big crowd Pakistanis was gathered on the end of the flag
hoisting and perhaps this was a routine which was well known to Indians. Terrorists
had not needed any big planning or Recce; moreover after big operations against
terrorists, terrorists had needed such a place for their attack in order to
prove their existence for which Wahga border was selected.
There
is a strange routine in Pakistan that we do not take the name of our enemy
despite of being aware of the enemy. Although the investigations over the bomb
blast are going on but majority of the analysts agree that this was an act of Indian
secret agencies because Indians were unable to bear the loud slogans of Long
Live Pakistan. These slogans were being taken by Indians as a slogan of hatred
against Hindu India. A hatred much different to the hatred found among
extremist Indians against Pakistan, against Islam which is exploited by
extremist Hindu parties for procuring votes and showing the real face of the
mother of democracy. The hatred of Pakistanis for India is against the
increasing Hindu extremism, state terrorism against minorities especially Muslims
and Pakistan. Indian propaganda and conspiracies against Pakistan in spite of
the Pakistani rulers’ efforts to boost friendly ties with India. Whether it is
the trade or the trade route towards Afghanistan only Pakistan is at the
loosing end. The Indian cargo trucks bound for Kabul are loaded with weapons
that are unloaded and handed over to terrorists en-route while the Indian goods
are also smuggled back to Pakistan from Kabul. Alas! Pakistani political govt.
is not ready to pay any attention to these reports as well as it did not pay
any heed to the reports of possible attack over Wahga border…
(To
be continued…)
Written by Khalid Baig,
Published in Daily Nawa-i-Waqt,
Date: 14 November 2014.
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