"Had there been a proper system there, at least two of them would have been caught there and then. The whole plot would have been unearthed before they could carry out the attack," a security bigshot said.
Two of the four attackers in the Jan 20 assault on BKU were identified through the biometric system with the National Database and Registration Authority. One was from Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
and the other from Sararogha in South
.png)
Wazoo. Both had been issued CNICs."We would have stopped and asked them a few questions. We would have asked why a Swati boy or a Waziristani boy crossing over from Afghanistan via Torkham. What business had they there?" the official said.
"But the tragedy is that while we continue to impress upon unyielding Afghans for tighter border control and tighter border management, we don't do a fig about border management on our side of the Durand," an exasperated security official said. "Our pleas fall on deaf ears."