The government has handed us over to animals, if not the guards are safe then who is safe in the country? Pakistan police expressed pain after Peshawar blast

Pakistan’s police officers said they have been reduced to animals in their fight against growing insurgency following the blast at a mosque in Peshawar. A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform stormed a heavily guarded compound in Peshawar on January 6 and blew himself up during afternoon prayers at a mosque. It is the deadliest attack in Pakistan in many years. Pakistani officials revised the death toll to 84. It was previously estimated that more than 100 people had died in the blast. About 400 worshipers were inside a mosque in Peshawar when a suicide bomber blew himself up. According to the latest estimates, 83 policemen were killed in the blast.

Police admitted that the blast that blew away the wall of the prayer hall, crushing people inside the mosque, was a case of security lapse. However, the frontline officers in the fight against insurgency are feeling abandoned. “We are in a state of shock, our comrades are dying every other day, how long will we have to suffer,” a police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity. We are on the front line of this war, we are protecting schools, offices and public places, but today we feel abandoned. The state tied our hands and we were thrown in front of the animals, another official told AFP.

A few dozen police officers protested in Peshawar on Wednesday, frustrated by the grave risks they face. Inayat Ullah, a 42-year-old policeman, said it was incomprehensible to me. Another policeman who lost six friends in the blast said, “Every time we leave our house, we hug our loved ones and they hug us. We don’t know whether we will come back alive or not.