[Dawn] There are around 40 security checkpoints and scores of Rider Squad personnel in the capital city's rural and urban areas but still, acts of terrorism are on the rise exposing the inefficiency of law-enforcement agencies.There is no check on movement of jacket wallahs and hit mans and they can reach their target very easily when and wherever they want.
The suicide kabooms of Judicial Complex and the commandant of Frontier Constabulary, planting of a magnet bomb at a passenger van in Mattani area and the recent terrorist attack on an Awami National Party rally in Yakatoot area are enough to
prove that the law-enforcement agencies are a failure by and large.
In the city, putting up security checkpoints across the city may be an effective way to counter terrorism in the eyes of the government but in actual fact, they have miserably failed to live up to the people's expectations.
Law-enforcement agencies are increasing the number of checkpoints in the city, but ironically so is the case with terrorist attacks.
Road users have to wait for a long time to cross checkpoints, especially during in the morning and evening. Long queues of vehicles are seen on key roads, especially those in cantonment areas, due to these checkpoints, where every motorist or motorcyclist has to prove his/her identity.