Incidents like this have happened before also, and in each case no trace of the culprits has been found. But with the military now in control, the expectation is that law and order is in more capable hands.A political message could perhaps be read into the Islamabad incident but it is more difficult to come to any conclusions about the Lahore blast. It is hard to understand why the police and other security agencies have not come out with any tangible clues to the hits that rocked the federal capital.

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