QUETTA: With the country still mourning the precious loss of lives in recent terrorist attacks in Balochistan, Independent Senator and former caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has termed the fight against terrorism a “national war”, stressing it is not an isolated struggle of the country’s security forces and intelligence agencies.
Reflecting on the recent violence in Balochistan during the Senate session on Tuesday, Senator Kakar said: “This is a national war and not an isolated fight of the Frontier Corps, Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB).” The lawmaker’s remarks come in the wake of recent bloodshed in the country’s largest province by terrorist groups which saw more than two dozen people, including security personnel, being martyred.
On Monday, at least 23 passengers were killed after being offloaded from passenger buses and trucks in the Rarasham area of Balochistan’s Musakhel. Separately, at least 10 people, including police and Balochistan Levies personnel, were martyred in a gun attack in Kalat.
Furthermore, at least 14 brave sons of soil including ten security forces soldiers and four personnel of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) were martyred in clearance operations — launched after at least 37 people were martyred in different terrorist incidents — wherein at least 21 militants were neutralised.
Addressing the Upper House, Senator Kakar said that the prerogative over violence only rested with the state. –Agencies
