Terrorism in Pakistan is not something slipping into the past. It is present, violent and near. You see it in a wrecked train in Balochistan, in the broken windows of a seminary in Nowshera, in the small shoes left on a road in Khuzdar. These are not distant tragedies. They are daily realities shaping how people live, how they think, and how they fear.

In March, the Jaffar Express was hijacked. More than thirty passengers were killed and dozens taken hostage. That train, meant to carry people home, became a moving grave. Later, Khuzdar was torn apart when a bus carrying schoolchildren was rammed by a vehicle filled with explosives. Ten children were killed. Their books and bags lay on the road while parents rushed to the site and collapsed when they recognised their own children among the

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