niaz
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Dear brothers juniors and seniors please do not blame Afghanistan for everything. Please admit the deficiencies in our own system and don't bring shame on ourselves for blaming the ones who are not even able to take care of themselves.
Agreed, it is easy to blame our faults on foreigners and ignore the faults on our own security apparatus and cultural failures. But in all fairness, it is not the victims who are at fault but the increasing conservative attitude of the society in general. IMHO, there are two main reasons for the success of the kidnappers.
Without finding the safe houses to operate and plan, such actions are not possible. The prevailing extremist mindset of the population enables the forces exploiting religious sentiments to easily find local collaborators; because their helpers think that this work is for Allah and thus a 'Kare-Thawab’.
Second is the use of burqa. Al-Qaida/ISIS/Taliban manage to cross the checkpoints with the kidnapped persons because the victim is made to wear the burqa and unless there is a female security agent on hand; no one would dare to unmask what appears to be a burqa-clad lady.
Lal Masjid Mullah also attempted the same ruse, but he is too tall for a woman. However, once you are sitting down, you can get away with it. As long as this state of affairs continues, security checkpoints would not be of much use for stopping kidnap victims from being spirited away to the tribal areas or out of Pakistan.
For example:
“KARACHI // Pakistani soldiers rescued the kidnapped son of a senior judge from his Taliban captors on Tuesday, after finding him bound in chains with his mouth taped shut and wearing a burqa to hide his identity.
Awais Shah, the son of Sindh provincial chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was kidnapped from outside a supermarket in the southern port city of Karachi on June 21.
He was found in the backseat of a car in a town bordering the northwestern tribal areas”
https://www.thenational.ae/pakistan-army-rescues-chief-justice-s-son-kidnapped-in-june-1.158289