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Rising suicide attacks in Pakistan

Filed Under Pakistan 

Lahore bomb blast The suicide bombers have struck yet again in Pakistan. This time the attack occurred at the Naval War College in Lahore which has left at least six dead and many injured.

A few days ago a serving lieutenant general of the Army Medical Corps was also killed in a suicide attack.

A suicide attack is a new phenomenon in Pakistan. We used to hear about such attacks in Palestine only. Now after the American War on Terror it has become so common in Pakistan that we hear about it almost every few days. The main reason for these suicide attacks is the lack of religious knowledge. Teenage boys are made to believe that they will enter paradise directly if they carry out the attack.

How can they hope to enter paradise when they kill their own fellow people without any reason. The extremist elements might have problem with Pervez Musharraf but what is the fault of a common bystander or an ordinary military personnel who is killed in the attack. It is obvious that these soldiers do not formulate government policies who have become the prime target of suicide attack.

It is time that the people of Pakistan stand up to weed out the menace of religious extremism from their society and the only way do that is by providing quality education.

 

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