KARACHI: Taking great exception to the current state of security arrangements at government buildings and installations following an attack on heavily-guarded Karachi Police Office (KPO) in the heart of the provincial metropolis, the security administration and provincial government decided to carry out a ‘security audit’ of these facilities while seeing the assault on the law enforcement agency’s headquarters as a serious security lapse.
Officials agreed that the attack on the KPO had raised several questions and for their answers a ‘proper exercise’ would be needed that included the ‘security audit’ and the plan of action the law enforcement agency was having after the terrorist attacks mainly on police across Pakistan had put the security establishment on toes in other parts of the country.
“That seems so [a serious security lapse],” said a senior member of the provincial administration when asked whether he agreed with the view that the attack on KPO was a serious security lapse.
“No doubt that it’s our police which is fighting and bearing the major brunt, but there is a need to revisit as to how secure our security offices and buildings are,” he said, asking not to be named.
He said that the recent Peshawar attack was a wake-up call for law enforcement agencies across the country and against this backdrop it was a matter of grave concern as to how militants had succeeded in sneaking into the police headquarters. “It’s alarming.”
However, he was confident that the Karachi police and the security administration along with the Sindh government would address all loopholes and fix the issues to take up the challenge.
Like past, he said, the morale of the police was up and ready to take the challenge as in urban areas it was mainly the law enforcement agency which fought against militants and made huge sacrifices to restore peace.
