It was only a matter of time. It was expected sooner or later and then yesterday, it finally happened. The US forces (does it matter whether there were also soldiers from NATO and Afghanistan?) did a swift action and butchered suspected militants including children and women and left. May be they took with them some of the suspects for further interrogation (and to force confessions).
They also reportedly killed people from neighbouring houses who had come out of their homes on hearing the shots. Now this can happen only in Pakistan. Only in this part of the planet, it seems, there is no value of human life. If the blatant invasion was not bad enough, the killing of people certainly was. As if they were lizards or insects that anyone could swat and crush.
The Pakistani government is talking about breach of sovereignty. What sovereignty? We as a nation have become so impotent, toothless and weak that anyone would molest us and all we could do would be a mute protest. And on top of that they would soothe us with words and we would be ready for another assault.
Is there any defence system in place to counter anyone trying to cross over our borders? I hardly think there would be! But even if there is, I am sure that it would be as ineffective and our border security as helpless, as our nation, to do anything about it.
At least someone should have fired token aerial shots in the vicinity of the trespassers that morning, to make us feel a little better!!
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