How did the very department responsible for protecting against terrorism become a target?

 The incident which happened at the counter-terrorism department office in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Ban nu district is also unexpected because the detained suspects held the security personnel hostage at gunpoint.

Overdue on Tuesday, DG IS PR, primary general Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary said that 35 militants created the situation, of which 25 have been killed in a gunfight with safety forces, seven surrendered and 3 fled. Arrested in the try.

Two rooms in CTD Ban nu workplace are being used as reference rooms where the militants along with other accused were introduced for thinking.

Extremists on Sunday snatched the weapons from one professional and took all the officers there as hostages, that's said to be the primary cause for the shortage of staff in this office.

On Sunday, a total of 7 to 8 workers have been present in this office, wherein a few safety personnel came to investigate the gunmen.

How is the office of CTD Ban nu?

The counter-terrorism office in Ban nu, in which the attack occurred, is the local headquarters and has been installation in a rented house inside the cantonment at the same time as the CTD's very own constructing is under production. There are a total of 4 local directorates in the province.

This office has six rooms and the software room has  rooms. This residence is situated on a place of ​​one to one and a half of kana ls.

Two rooms inside the servants' quarters serve as reference rooms, wherein suspects to be puzzled or interrogated are held. The last rooms in this constructing are used for workplace functions.

A police official said on the situation of anonymity that especially those accused are kept at the CTD Counter-Terrorist Police Station in Ban nu's Maidan place, however while these accused are puzzled or in any manner if they are investigated, they're introduced to the office right here in the cantonment.

It ought to be stated that most of the suspects brought up for investigation were humans associated with the banned Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan, along with local TTP commander Zarrar.

After officers in that office were taken hostage, a video of Commander Zarrar changed into additionally released showing him present within the building talking to his colleagues.

Lack of Resources

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province maximum laid low with extremism, extra than seven-hundred violent incidents annually kill around 300 human beings, but the counter-terrorism unit installation to deal with extremism is below-resourced.

In line with a file supplied to the country wide security Committee meeting, CTD's budget in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is much less than half of that of Punjab province and only 4 percent of the price range may be spent on operational duties whilst 96 percentage is spent on salaries.

The report said that there have been numerous incidents of violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the course of 365 days, at the same time as the price range of this branch was negligible.

The file states that the state of affairs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is worse than in different provinces and that the counter-terrorism branch has no resources and no personnel education programs are presently underway.

In the past year, there have been 5 terrorist incidents in Punjab province, in which three people were killed and 30 injured. In contrast, there have been 704 incidents of violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in which 305 humans have been killed and 689 were injured. Similarly, 93 militants have been killed in 12 months and the maximum of them have been killed in security forces operations.

The report states that regardless of such a lot of terrorist incidents and the dire situation, there is no formal software to educate employees and deal with it.

Further, the record also states that the variety of personnel of this branch inside the incorporated tribal regions of the province may be very much less and people who have been appointed are taken from beyond drafts or special forces which don't have any training in this regard.