TERRORISTS find crowded places to ambush. The Quetta Civil Hospital bombing showed mind-boggling planning. First, to kill senior lawyer Bilal Anwar Kazi and then to attack a big group of lawyers, gathered at the hospital.

The attack shows that the killers can operate anywhere they please. In June, they had murdered the principal of the law college of Balochistan.

Besides, many Hazara people were killed on Aug 1. Another lawyer was also murdered by gunmen on a motorcycle. They have also killed journalists, women and children.

There is a need for us to reorganise ourselves and implement the 20-point agenda to counter resurgent extremism and rampaging militancy. The time to take action is now; otherwise our miseries and woes will grow.

Wajahat Abro
Shikarpur.

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ACCORDING to the Quetta commissioner, “the police have collected vital forensic evidence from the crime scene and investigations are under way.”

Doesn’t it all sound familiar? Attacks like these are not new for us, neither are those condemnations and inquiry reports that follow.

Pakistan has been in a state of war against terrorism for a long time, but it seems as if we have so become accustomed to such atrocities taking place almost every other day that we don’t even feel the pain anymore.

We condemn the attack and we move on. It has, sadly, become a part of our life now. It is time we got ourselves out of this condemnation culture and, instead, took steps to root out terrorism at all levels.

Maha Rais
Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2016