The NWFP and Balochistan have been abandoned by the Pakistan establishment; they dont care about our plight, having left us at the mercy of terrorists to create horrific news headlines and figures for your newspapers. The swelling casualties have reached 10,000 in the last few years with almost 700 terrorist incidents occurring in the last three years alone. Of these, 200 have so far occurred in 2009 alone and the year is not yet over. The number of deaths and the debris of destruction are both piled higher in NWFP than they have been in Afghanistan and Kashmir put together. Is that not an emergency? When so much death and destruction has occurred, why isnt the Army doing anything to prevent it? I ask you why there are no checkposts of the military on the roads of FATA that lead into Peshawar? And why there is no patrolling on the streets of Peshawar itself? What are they scared of? Even the tiny regimental units of the Army have scanners in Peshawar while the poor NWFP policemen that walk the streets and roads of our city have none. How criminal of the government of Pakistan They are taking us for granted, keeping their Army men idle in protected bunkers and trenches just when we need them most. -DR. KHURRUM SHAUKAT YUSAFZAI, Peshawar, October 29.