No Tolerance.

Wednesday, the sixteenth of November was a tragic day. In one day, we witnessed two separate terrorist attacks in Lakki Marwat and Bajaur districts, near the Afghan border, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The first incident occurred in the Kurrum Par area of Lakki Marwat in the morning when militants opened fire on a police van, killing six personnel. The second incident took place in the Charmang region of Bajaur district, where two soldiers were martyred and a militant killed in a clash near the Pak-Afghan border area.

The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for both incidents. TTP has tried to justify the clashes by stating that they were targeted by a drone before a raid. However, that in no way and in any jurisdiction explains why the TTP targeted police officers, who may not even be combatants as per international humanitarian law, for their ire. Nor does it justify why the TTP has targeted and carried out attacks on civilians in the past. In September, for example, claimed responsibility for an attack that took the lives of many civilians and...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT