Peshawar attack investigation: How planners are misleading attackers?

by Tauqeer Abbas
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Police investigators probing the Friday attack on Peshawar’s Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) suspect that the planners of the attack apparently tricked the suicide bombers into believing that the facility was an intelligence agency’s office.

 

Nine people, including eight students, were killed and 28 others injured when three terrorists stormed the provincial agriculture department-run training institute on Friday morning. All the three terrorists were also killed in a two-hour-long operation.

A senior police official told meida that the planners had deliberately misled the attackers about the target. “ATI was apparently their actual target but they misled the attackers saying it was an intelligence agency office,” the official claimed.

The militants are surely plotting further strikes and the announcement that a number of arrests were made in and around Peshawar yesterday suggests the existence of a disturbingly active terrorist network inside the country.

 

The greater threat, however, emanates from the TTP sanctuaries in Afghanistan. It is in Afghanistan that the TTP leadership is believed to be based and without some steps taken to reduce the space the TTP has across the border, it may well be impossible to put an end to attacks inside Pakistan.

 

Thus far, the Peshawar attack has not stirred up a fresh round of cross-border accusations and recriminations — suggesting that the two states are continuing with efforts to improve bilateral ties that had threatened to fall apart. If that is true, it is welcome news and efforts must be redoubled to improve intelligence-sharing and address threats that jointly and separately affect the two countries.

 

Apart from this the aspect that planners are misleading attackers should also be taken into consideration and it should be propagated through media and other sources so that innocent people could be prevented from becoming the victim of terrorist ideologies.

 

 

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