Pakistan

Daily Times in its issue of Thursday, May 21, 2009 has reported, "Six vehicles used by Taliban clad in black Elite Force uniforms were also destroyed during the operation. The security forces also defused seven improvised explosive devices. To a question, he (DG ISPR) said the military was investigating where the Taliban got the Elite Force vehicles and uniforms from."

If the loss of six vehicles of our police elite force is to be discovered only as late as above, we need to seriously look into the system of reporting and accounting in Pakistan Police. And, it may not be Police alone, we need to to look into other government departments. There are countless questions arising out of this discovery which must be thoroughly investigated and duly answered. The possibility of some officials conniving with Taliban can't be ruled out. It's common knowledge that any citizen losing his/her cell phone or a car immediately registers an FIR for fear of not being rounded up as a criminal if the car or the cell are later found to have been used in any criminal activity. Who is going to teach this to our police officials?