This may be a false impression. Terrorists at Pakistan Ordinance factories — just like the attacks at the Bagram Air Base in 2007 and the Indian embassy in Kabul in August this year — have chosen to attack the easily targeted workers outside the gates of an otherwise protected premises. Many across the world will remember that the 2007 attack at the Bagram Air base, in Afghanistan, was timed with the presence of the US Vice-President Dick Cheney inside the base to send the message that he was under attack though the possibility of Taleban ever reaching him was infinitely remote. Nevertheless the symbolic value of such attacks is unmistakable.
Maulvi Umar, that ubiquitous spokesman, of that shadowy outfit, Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP), while admitting responsibility for these attacks cited them as retaliation on “killer factories” for the military operations in Bajaur agency. Taking his words along, these bombings then serve at least two distinct purposes: One, they serve to expand the political space of the TTP as a defacto representative and champion of the rights of the tribal people in Bajaur. Second, it sends the message, that Pakistani military, even in its heart, is not safe from the counter reach of the Taleban.
http://newageislam.com/suicide-bombers--no-option-but-to-fight-back?/war-on-terror/d/670
Categories : 
4:56 AM
Moderate Islamist here
0 comments:
Post a Comment