It seems extremist ideology is making its way into sensitive agencies as is obvious from attacks with insiders helping
SAUDI ARABIA: Media reports are indeed worrying that terrorists who attacked a Naval Dockyard in Karachi on September 6 had help from the inside. The dockyard handles Pakistan Navy ships and submarines and could have made for quite a gift for terrorists if they had succeeded in their mission. Clashes between the security forces and militants continued for several hours, according to a statement. This is not the first time insiders played a suspected role in attacks on sensitive military installations. The attack on the army’s General Headquarters in Islamabad, attack on the PNS Mehran in Karachi and the aeronautical facilities in Kamra also had similar aspects. It seems that extremist ideology is making its way into sensitive agencies as is obvious from these attacks with insiders helping to fight the very country they are supposed to be serving. This is another gift from the dark period of military dictator Ziaul Haq, who changed the ideological direction of the army to suit the so-called American jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Zia is gone but we are unable to remove the deep scars he left on the Pakistani society. Pakistan’s armed forces are part of the same society.
Masood Khan
Jubail
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2014.
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