But what do we mean when we say minimum casualties? Eight soldiers and three civilians were killed including high officials of security forces. Is this a minimum of casualties? Can we call the loss of a single person as a minimum of casualties? Anyone with that thought should go and ask the relatives of any one of those martyred in this crisis, and they would tell you that their whole world is finished. So there is no minimum of casualties. Even a single casualty is maximum of casualties. Many more casualties could have been saved if this action had been postponed and non-offensive techniques were used to buy more time. It seems that this action was done in haste to maintain the dignity of the armed force, as this attack was a direct blow in the face of army. If this notion had been set aside and more value was given to human lives, many more casualties could have been avoided.
The crisis we have just experienced at the GHQ (General Head Quarter) of Pakistan Army, has left behind many lessons, many regrets and many questions to be answered.
The commencement of this crisis has revealed a TOTAL FAILURE of intelligence agencies. If some people can plan and conduct a terrorist act, sitting at a locality within 15 km of the GHQ of armed forces, and the head quarter of the chief intelligence agency of Pakistan, then they can do it at any place. If our intelligence has failed to discover and stop someone from planning a plot to attack GHQ, how can our agencies come to know of any one planning another attack sitting in the mountains or across the border?
This crisis has shown us that none of our security institutions are capable of stopping events like this beforehand. They can only respond after such an attack has commenced. And even in that situation all hopes lie upon SSG, which seems to be the only force capable enough to tackle situations like this.
The issue of using uniforms of security agencies by the bandits is very old. Since long we have heard stories of looting being conducted by robbers wearing police uniforms, but using army uniforms is a new technique. And this is only a start, we can suspect many more incidents like this. Nothing has yet been done to curb the robbers and terrorists from using uniforms of security agencies. As police and army uniforms are freely available in the markets across the country, even a street thug has access to get hands on one and use it the way he wants to use it. In my opinion these uniforms should only be issued by the respective departments and these should not be available in the markets.
Then we have to improve the status of our police department. We see police men having big tummies hanging below their belts. How can such a person be tolerated in any of security providing institutions. If someone cannot run for half a mile, how the hell is he going to fight for the people, or even patrol the streets. All he can do is eat a good meal, and when he is finished, wait for the next meal and make preparations for it.
Then, our police men (officers as well as jawans) should have continued physical and academic training. There is no such system in police department. Many of the soldiers have not fired a shot from a gun after police training school. How can we expect them to shoot at target. Also they need to be trained time by time according to the latest developments. As the thugs and terrorists get state of the art training with latest technology and equipment, while our soldiers have been trained in the era of revolvers. They dont even know how to boot a computer, or use the various functions of their cell phones, let alone use sophisticated weapons and technology gadgets.
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