The question is that how could 10 or more terrorists, armed with high-tech weapons manage to breach security barriers?
KARACHI: Why do we believe that every terror-related incident in Pakistan is instigated by the Americans and that we Pakistanis are innocent angels?
The May 22nd attack on a navy base in Karachi which, till the writing of this, is still not over, is very scary and poses some questions including, of course, those of the obvious possibility of connivance at some level. It has often been said that there is a significant element of sympathy within the forces towards the extremists and against the Americans, and that these elements see the top civil and military ranks as part of the problem.
So the question is that how could 10 or more terrorists (the number given by a Pakistan Navy spokesman), armed with high-tech weapons manage to breach security barriers and reach a hanger, apparently without much resistance, where they were able to destroy at least one navy plane? This is mind-boggling and points towards compromise and/or connivance at some level.
Are the sensitive installations safe in this country? Do we not fear that tomorrow someone may take over our nuclear installations, also without our knowing? Are our forces and intelligence, which take up most of our resources (at the cost of social development), so incompetent, incapable and weak before these terrorists or are they divided within?
These questions need answers.
JW Zubery
Published in The Express Tribune, May 24th, 2011.
