A letter of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly circulated on social media by PTI propagandists claiming that it was written to Pak Army 11 Corps for an in-camera security briefing shows their lack of understanding of the system.
As per details, the KP government’s so-called request to the 11 Corps for a security briefing lacks understanding of how the state actually functions.
This lack of understanding and non-seriousness of the PTI KP government has resulted in the loss of human lives at the hands of terrorists.
It is important to mention here that 11 Corps is a formation of the Pakistan Army, a federal institution. Such engagement is routed through the federal government which will then ask GHQ through the Ministry of Defence if considered necessary.
Then the GHQ will nominate appropriate authorities for the needful, again, if considered appropriate, through established coordination mechanisms, not through ad-hoc provincial outreach.
The misadventure is part of PTI’s persistent inability to treat counter-terrorism as a serious policy domain, despite Khyber Pakhtunkhwa being the epicentre of militant violence.
It is pertinent to mention here that institutional coordination and long-term planning are required, but they offer symbolism and optics instead.
The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa need to understand that the timing of such propaganda is not accidental. Political reversals in Lahore and Karachi, and the steady erosion of PTI’s street-movement narrative nationwide, have left the party searching for relevance.
After losing thousands of innocent civilians and brave soldiers of armed forces, they need to understand that terrorism cannot be managed through theatrics.
It demands institutional discipline, clarity of mandate, and political maturity, qualities that remain conspicuously absent from PTI’s approach in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
