Pakistan is still reeling following yesterday’s attack on its army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi, and the 20+ hour siege that followed. 20 were slain in the attack but the ramifications go far beyond the mere body count.
Attacks have been on the rise in recent days, showing that despite claims of major gains the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is still a powerful force to be reckoned with.
But a deadly attack on a market in Peshawar is one thing, yesterday’s attack was quite another. A handful of militants, not even from the TTP’s core group but from a smaller Punjabi auxiliary, were able to set up a base of operations in the capital city of Islamabad for months on end and successfully infiltrate the headquarters of the Pakistani military, take dozens of hostages, and hold off commandos for nearly the entire day.
The nation’s vulnerability is palpable at this point, and it seems that if the army’s headquarters can be hit, literally any location in Pakistan could be next. The military seems determined to press on with its offensives in the tribal areas, but it is their defensive capabilities, or lack thereof, that Pakistanis must be increasingly worried about.
This is amazing. Actually no one is allowed to keep weapons inside the GHQ. Why? They dont trust their own soldiers and officers. An army which does not trust its own soldier is going to fight a war?
Then the new comes that the mastermind of this attack and the sir lanka attack is a ex army compounder. Top generals getting outwitted by a compounder? Then the new comes that details of the attack were printed in The New on Oct 5. They could not defend the GHQ, when it was common knowledge days earlier.