Pakistan has been reeling under militant attacks since the last week.Five people were reported killed in a suicide attack in UN’s Islamabad office on the 5th of October, followed by another bombing in Peshawar on the 9th of October, which killed 49 people.
The third attack followed the very next day on the 10th of October in which 19 people were reported killed in a raid on Army Head Quarters, Rawalpindi.
And now these fresh attacks in Alpurai, which has killed 41, took place today in the early afternoon. Just as the convoy of troops was passing through the market place, a car blew up near a hospital injuring scores of people including security personnel.
Earlier this year when the military tried to free Swat from the clutches of Taliban, they had arrested many high profile Taliban leaders including Muslim Khan their spokesperson while their leader Maulana Fazlullah is still on the loose.
All this goes to prove that though the Swat valley is now under military control yet the presence of militants there cannot be absolutely ruled out. In fact the militants have hit back hard at them which means that the military should take quick actions.
As for the national consensus, the repeated attacks by the militants have to be curbed and for that the army should launch an operation as fast as possible to flush out the militants completely.
As of now Pakistan has a great threat at hand.