Today I had my official security briefing - on day 16 in Pakistan. It was delivered to me (with a campus tour) by Lieutenant Colonel Khaqan Mahmood Rana, the current head of security for FC College.
Colonel Khaqan is a pretty amazing man with a unique history - one of a kind in Pakistan, actually. He is a 27-year retired veteran of the Pakistani Army and has lived all over this country (rare for Pakistanis to move that much). He is the only Christian officer to have been permitted to attend Military Intelligence School (based on merit and hard work) and is the only Christian to have been allowed to serve as an ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence) officer.
He noted that there are three reasons why FC College is a target for extremist and terrorist organizations, because: (1) it is a Christian college, (2) it allows co-education (boys mingling with girls), and (3) there are foreigners on campus. He clarified that by "foreigners" he means Americans. Lovely.
Colonel Khaqan is a pretty amazing man with a unique history - one of a kind in Pakistan, actually. He is a 27-year retired veteran of the Pakistani Army and has lived all over this country (rare for Pakistanis to move that much). He is the only Christian officer to have been permitted to attend Military Intelligence School (based on merit and hard work) and is the only Christian to have been allowed to serve as an ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence) officer.
He noted that there are three reasons why FC College is a target for extremist and terrorist organizations, because: (1) it is a Christian college, (2) it allows co-education (boys mingling with girls), and (3) there are foreigners on campus. He clarified that by "foreigners" he means Americans. Lovely.
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