Wednesday, November 4, 2009

STATE OF DENIAL

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon in Lahore. There have been several deadly incidents during the last two years. What distinguishes the terrorist attacks on October 15 is the coordinated assault at three different locations belonging to law enforcement agencies.The Lahore incidents are part of the latest series of terrorist attacks that began with the suicide bombing at the UN food programme office in islamabad on October5,follow by the suicide attack at a market place in peshawar and a daredevil attack on the outer perimeter of the army headquarters in Rawalpindi. On October 15, when attention was focused an Lahore, two attacks took place in kohat and peshawar ,raising the total number of attacks to five in one day. Never in the past have five attacks taken place in one day in urban areas.On October 16, Peshawar experienced two suicide attacks.