Monday, January 7, 2013

PAKISTAN: WAR AGAINST TALIBAN

Unless Zardari massively increases investment on modernising the police, his war against terror will fail

Thirdly, large scale army operations almost always will devastate establishments/villages and forced people to flee (in Pakistan’s case, over 3 million). Engagement of police, along with intelligence, in counter-insurgency operations have historically proved to be more successful across the globe than similar operations led by army. Unfortunately, the ill-equipped, under-funded, corrupt and mostly bureaucratized Pakistan police is still many miles off even average benchmarks. A major portion of the police force is engaged on VVIP duty.

The police to people ratio is a critically low 1:625. Reportedly, some policemen have dated weapons that have not been used even a single time. Over 80% of the police force comprises constables, showing an ungainly lack of middle leadership. Horrifyingly, over 70% of them are sick suffer from diseases like Hepatitis C, TB, and AIDS. There are only six forensic labs accessible for police nationally.

Three years ago, it was the Pakistani police that had arrested Zardari when he attempted to return to Pakistan from Dubai. Today, critically, Zardari’s upstart fight to combat terrorism could well come up a cropper if he fails to invest in the Pakistani police force. Will he do it? If not for the war, perhaps for the 10%?


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
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