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No posturing, please

October 10, 2008

THE suicide attack on the headquarters of the Anti-Terrorist Squad in Islamabad should serve as a grim reminder to the members of Parliament, currently receiving briefings on security related issues, of the gravity of the situation. The same day a roadside bomb killed at least 11 in Dir, including four girls returning home from school and a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to target petrol laden tankers at Michni post near the Pak-Afghan border. Besides blowing up a part of the building the suicide bomber in Islamabad blasted the myth of what were being described as the government's extraordinary security arrangements during the in-camera session of Parliament.

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