Delayed action

Published December 19, 2014

THIS putative plan of action that all politicians have sworn to frame through a committee required the death of 146 innocent people. Isn’t this a crying shame?

Why couldn’t they sit down to frame a counter-terrorism plan of action despite being in the fray for so long?

These questions will be asked by the mourners when they recover from their grief.

Brig.(r) Raashid Wali Janjua

Islamabad

Published in Dawn, December 19th, 2014

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