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Military has finally run out of patience following latest wave of terror attacks, headlined by Karachi airport siege

The military has finally run out of patience following the latest wave of terror attacks, headlined by the siege of Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. It has launched the Zarb-e-Azb operation in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) in order to wipe out militants. The truce between the Pakistani Taliban and the government broke down with the militants’ attack on Karachi’s airport, launched on June 8, in which more than 30 people were killed.

This military operation aims to crush the militants tooth and nail. More than 150 Taliban militants have been killed in the airstrike so far which aims at rooting out militants once and for all.

This time, all the political parties and political leadership are on the same page via a vis the military operation and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directed the military to launch a vigorous operation against militants, crushing terrorism in all its forms and ideologies. He ordered the army to continue the operation till the elimination of the last terrorist.

Militancy has spread in Islamabad like cancer and it is affecting every province and city of the country including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Karachi, Islamabad and others. People of the chief war-torn province, Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa, are fed up with the almost daily bombings and want these militants to be eliminated.

To deal with any fallout from the NWA operation, security has been beefed up in Peshawar. There is also a red alert in Islamabad-Rawalpindi and watertight security in key prisons of the country.

Inspector General of K-P Police, Nasir Durrani, has pointed out that Peshawar would become vulnerable with the operation in NWA, adding that security would be tightened in suburban areas adjacent to the tribal belt to halt the infiltration of militants in the metropolis.

If we peek into history, we will understand that the military launched various offevsive to defeat the Taliban militants in the past, but had to bow down to political pressure, which came in the form of an insistence for peace talks.

This time, we hope that the army would not go for the tried, tested, dusted and futile formula of peace agreements and eliminate the terrorists completely.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 17^th, 2014.