SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
There have been reports that Mumbai attacks suspect Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi has been living a lavish life in Jail. He is also an operational leader of a terrorist banned outfit, Pakistan military is fighting out. Pakistan army has waged a war against “all shades of terrorism” then it raises serious doubts over the state’s sincerity to the cause.
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, operational head of Lashker-e-Jhangvi, arrested from a militant training facility, is living as the state’s honoured guest in the infamous Adiala jail. He and his companions are housed in several rooms, where they have access to television, internet and mobile phones as well as the ability to have unlimited visitors, any time of the day, who don’t have to identify themselves, and are afforded complete privacy. Instead of keeping him under constant surveillance, the government has allowed him turn Adiala jail into his personal command centre, where he can monitor the happenings of the world, meet his subordinates, and issue directions; all the while being guarded by policemen on the public’s payroll. The irony is lost on the government. This is not some obscure jailhouse, where such lapses in protocol can be pinned on individual corruption or fear. This is Adalia Jail, a few kilometres away from the GHQ; the military and the government top brass must have tacitly approved of this arrangement, perhaps even ordered it.
How can one trust the government to combat terrorism when terrorists like Lakhvi are afforded such preferential treatment? Why should the international community believe Raheel Sharif when he says there is no distinction between good Taliban and bad Taliban when it seems the military is using a militant as an asset for future use? Not only Pakistani nation but world hoped that we have turned a new leaf in war against terrorists but it seems that it is just a hoodwink. For a moment one can admit that civilian government is not sincere in its efforts against terrorism but why agencies and Military is sleeping that how we are treating a notorious terrorist?
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