Book review
Terrorism came to Karachi long before September 11, 2001, much before Maulana Masood Azhar stood in the courtyard of Binori Mosque Complex and announced Jihad against India in january 2000.
The year was 1986, Azhar was around eighteen and a student of Jamia Islamia Madarsa at the Mosque (where one of his friends was Mohammad Omar who later went to become the Taliban Chief) when a group of Palestinians hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 with 379 passangers and crew to Karachi. After the security agencies stormed the hijacked palne and captured some of the terrorists, a reporter asked one of them, "why did you do it?"The hijacker replied, 'it's so easy here!' Seventeen years down the line, Al Qaida terrorists fleeing the US manhunt in Afghanistan found Karachi no different.
Peeling off layers of sheen and gloss from the city that the British preferred as the capital of Karachi, the book examines the underbelly of a city which houses the country's elite,both famous and infamous, and reveals the shocking truth: Karachi would be tommorow's kandhar, the hub of terror

About the author Mr. Wilson John is a well-known, more feared than admired, defence journalist. He has been a journalist for over two decades. He is currently the Consulting Editor of The Pioneer, New Delhi. Mr. John, 40, is a first class graduate of Delhi University. For the past several years, he has been one of the most prolific and controversial defence writers in the country. He is passionate about defence issues and has boldly gone against the wind when it mattered. He has authored a book on the downfall of former Indian Navy chief Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat. The book is titled An Admiral’s Fall. Now he is also with some fact finding writings of Tehlka Trap.