Pakistan played a significant role in the field of counter terrorism with an idea to make the world a more secure place to live.

Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) killed five suicide bomber stormed Frontier Corps (FC) Madadgar Centre on Thursday night foiling major attacks on security forces.

Five attacker wearing suicide vest attempted to barge inside FC’s Help Centre but timely action by LEAs foiled major attack on Security forces, The attack occurred day after security forces have arrested and killed high value targets in Killi Almas. According to Inter Service Intelligence Public Relations Salman Badini head of LeJ Balochistan among two others killed in the raid.

A least known organization—Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (International) claimed the responsibility of the attack. Some others thought that hostile security agencies from Afghanistan or India might be involved in the terrorist acts in Quetta aiming at to create scare among the people and destabilize the country as a whole.

Security forces claimed the attackers wearing forces uniform are believed to be Afghan citizens.

On 16th May Colonel Sohail Abid martyred during the operation at Killi Almas on the suburbs of Quetta. His mission was to get Salman Badini the Balochistan leader of Lashkar e Jhnagvi at any cost, and so he did.

It is important for people to know what goes through the mind of professional soldiers from training to combat. As General Douglas McArthur explained, “a professional soldier must lie in wait all his life for a moment that may never come, yet be ready when it does even to the peril of his life”.

According to unofficial source, FC foiled 19 suicide attack in the different areas of Balochistan at once to save many lives.

Recently a bomb-production processing plant being functional in Quetta’s Killi Barat was busted by Law Enforcement Agencies and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) recovering a large cache of explosives and weapons.

Surprisingly, the vast majority, especially fellow military officers, serving and retired, supported the perspective. Most sent direct messages, perhaps afraid of offending the institution. But some brave souls did boldly defend the perspective publicly on social media forums.

Soldiering is an experience punctuated with strong emotive factors, camaraderie, and sense of belonging to a strongly bonded group. Training, dormitory living, and bonding forge a collective exclusive identity to create a spirit de corps. This hardens soldiers to foray ‘where eagles dare’.

The hybrid nature of threat particularly in Balochistan is in different compartments. Yet they complement each other. Separatism and greater Pakhtunkhwa are distinctively different but target Pakistani establishment. They share same external linkages as militant groups. So if the menace is not arrested, these groups will assume the nature of a complex maze as exists in Syria.

FC were on high alert and intercepted them before they could cause carnage.

The continuing success of security forces in Balochistan is very significant especially in the face of increasing foreign proxy wars in the area.

Balochistan province shares a prolonged porous border with Afghanistan length of more than 1100km which remained the gateway of terrorists enters in the province to carry out their terrorist activities. Pakistan has accused Afghanistan for harboring and providing sanctuaries to Pakistan Taliban waging war against the state.

Efforts by Security Forces especially Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan to secure the border are underway as a trench alongside Pak-Afghan border had been excavated to prevent easy movement by terrorist and smugglers. While border fencing on Pakistan’s western border with Afghanistan is continued.

The level of training of the FC has, to say the least, been of an appalling standard. Newly recruited youths who are already fairly familiar with weapons usage are imparted training regarding the rudiments of drill and parade but not much beyond that. The prime reason for this is the belief amongst the officers of the regular Pakistan Army that the FC is essentially a police force and not a military entity per se.

I am convinced as are many others, whether we like it or not, that the FC and Army today is the bedrock on which Pakistan rests and survives. It is the only institution that stands between order and total anarchy. And therefore it must survive. Both from attacks from outside but also from decay from inside.