Enough is enough: Pakistan’s 10-for-1 view after Karachi Rangers attack
I mourn in silence. Enough is enough – if Pakistan loses one soldier, the terrorists harboring Afghanistan must lose ten. It is no longer just a slogan that I am repeating. After the weekend we’ve just had, it’s the only policy that makes sense.
Terrorists attacked Sindh Rangers headquarters in Karachi on Saturday night. The blast blew open the main gate, shots rang out and when the smoke cleared, three of our Rangers personnel were martyred and many were injured. The attack failed in its main objective — our men fought back with everything they had and cut down the attackers on the spot — but the failure did not erase the cost. We buried soldiers because the invasion was planned and sent from across our western border.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed the attack within hours, and I don’t for a second accept that it was an isolated, unprovoked act with no clue. I went through the social media trail myself this week — every major platform, every Telegram channel — and the pattern is impossible to ignore. Accounts boasting about the operation and claiming responsibility are openly circulated from Afghanistan, followed and amplified by some prominent Afghan journalists and even officials linked to the Islamic Emirate. As threats circulated before glorifying the bloodshed to come, the same circles in Kabul reacted with derision — laughing emojis, celebration, the language of the people cheering a victory rather than condemning a crime. If the Afghan state had nothing to do with it, I wonder why its own information ecosystem celebrated it in real time.
Then there’s the man the Rangers capture — wounded in the leg, pulled alive from the firefight. During questioning, he didn’t need to be forced to say it: he told investigators frankly that he was an Afghan national who had crossed the border to carry out the attack. A confession does not by itself prove a state policy. But stack it against the social media trail of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Fitnah al-Khawarij commanders operating freely on Afghan soil for years, and it stops looking coincidental. One pattern seems to keep refusing to break.
DG ISPR said what every Pakistani wants to hear: that this will not go unanswered. And on the night of June 28/29, it didn’t. Pakistani forces targeted Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Fitnah-ul-Khawarij camps and safe havens in Paktia, Paktika and Kannada. More than two dozen terrorists were killed, including the commander, along with weapons and ammunition stockpiled for repatriation across the border. Pakistan released the footage. Pakistan named the targets. It wasn’t blind rage – it was precision, and it was earned.
What followed was as predictable as the sunrise: the same tired script from Kabul. Ordinary citizens, they say. Women, they say. Children, they say – every time, as if there is no other person inside these camps and shelters. A network that plans an attack on a paramilitary headquarters in Karachi and then retreats in the language of civilian victimization after its counterattack isn’t waging a war — it’s running a public relations defense, and a stale one at that.
How can they (terrorists) call themselves men? If they had courage, they would not hide behind terrorism. They will come forward and put up a real fight. But they don’t have the courage.
I am not writing this out of anger alone. I spent several hours this week reading the response from across the country, and what struck me is how unified it already is. The Rangers, the Army, every law enforcement agency in uniform stands on our soil – backed without hesitation, because this country has buried too many of its own people to continue to accept cross-border denial rather than accountability.
Operation Wrath is not over, and it shouldn’t be, until Afghan soil stops being used as a launching pad against Pakistani cities, Pakistani Rangers, Pakistani troops. I’ll put it as bluntly as I started: one of our martyred soldiers means ten terrorists buried on the other side of that border – whatever the cost, no matter how many attacks. We have absorbed enough. The nation defends it behind the men in uniform, and that’s not changing.
The Rangers did their job Saturday night. Why didn’t the police do their job?
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