Adapt new way to fight terror, Pakistan told (Lead)

June 13th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS  

Islamabad, June 13 (IANS) A prominent Pakistani newspaper Monday blasted the government for failing to prevent unending terrorist outrages and asked it to unveil a new approach to fight terror.

An editorial in the mass circulated Urdu daily Jang pulled up the government after a bomb attack in a Peshawar market late Saturday killed 34 people and injured 100.

“Several shops were destroyed and damage caused to buildings. Such attacks have been taking place in our country regularly in which countless people have been killed,” it said.

The paper said it had been urging the government and the “institutions and agencies responsible for the security of the country and safety of the people to look at the underlying causes and reasons behind the blasts”.

It pointed out that “experience until now is clear proof that traditional methods are not successful in deterring such attacks”.

“It is necessary that the federal and provincial authorities devise some new ways to protect the people and their property from such blasts. This is the need of the hour.”

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