In a forceful address to the people of Pakistan, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, laid out both the heavy cost Pakistan paid due to the surge in terrorist activity during 2025 and the extensive, multi-layered efforts being undertaken by the state, the armed forces, and paramilitary units to counter it.

Such a wide-ranging review is the need of the hour. News that a truck bomb targeting Dolmen Mall in Karachi was detected and neutralised before detonation briefly makes headlines before disappearing into the churn of the news cycle. Had that attack succeeded and dozens of innocent lives been lost, its impact would have dominated public discourse for weeks. This contrast highlights a........

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