DESPERATE times demand that desperate measures be taken in the nick of time. Another heinous terror struck Charsadda Bazaar on Nov 12, leaving more than 80 families mourning, showing again a coward reprisal attack on innocent people who are not aware of the fact as to why they are being killed, who are behind the scene, who to blame and who are responsible.

With each passing week, hundreds of innocent lives are lost, the responsibility of which cannot be put on any single head. The poor, middle-class families receiving unprecedented wounds have no money to spend on hospital expenditure and this is gradually creating an anti-government stance.

Neither any sort of compensation is promised or delivered from government agencies.

As a repercussion, the poor people who can do nothing about terrorist starts developing anti-governmental feelings which will lead to chaos and disintegration of our society at large.

It is evident that government security agencies are not able to control the existing situation.

SHIRAZ A. KHAN
Islamabad