Pakistani internal security (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

Reports on an attack on a mosque used by the Army, within the Rawlpindi cantonment: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ue-attack.html

Five serving officers, including a major general, a brigadier, two lieutenant colonels and a major, died in the assault by suicide bombers and gunmen on a mosque near the army's headquarters in Rawalpindi....A retired major and three serving ordinary soldiers were also among the dead as well as 17 children, including 11 sons of officers....The main Pakistani extremist group, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is closely tied to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack.

The BBC:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8394694.stm

From Londonstani, on Abu M blog:http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawam...an-update.html Within and referring to a forthcoming Shia festival, for the first time IIRC he asks:

Is anyone else thinking Algeria 1990s?

I wonder how the Pakistani Army officer corps view the "accomodation" made with the "militants" now? In particular the role of ISI creating and maintaining the "militants" and the Taliban as a strategic defence option!