Militancy in Punjab

The News International (Pakistan)

21 August 2015

Abdul Basit

The suicide attack on the Punjab Home Minister Col (r) Shuja Khanzada, in the backdrop ofLashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Chief Malik Ishaq’s killing, indicates the magnitude of the problem the security forces will have to deal with when counter-terrorism operations are expanded to Punjab.

The attack is a grim reminder to the ‘naysayers’ of the militant problem in Punjab that the terrorist infrastructure is not only thriving in the south but is spilling over to northern parts of the province as well.

The attack on Shuja Khanzada is instructive in many ways.

… The writer is an associate research fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.

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