Islamabad: The audacious terrorist siege of a police training centre in Lahore is an indication of the danger posed by the enemy within Pakistan, the media here said today, cautioning against the tendency of blaming the "foreign hand" for such attacks.

Noting that terrorists have been systematically targeting security forces, Pakistan's leading newspapers said the administration has to devote all its energies to bring to book those disrupting the country's stability.

"It should be clear by now that we are at war with ourselves as the enemy within grows more audacious by the day. Yet there are educated people in this country who continue to blame American foreign policy and the ever-potent 'foreign hand' for the wave of terrorism sweeping the country," the Dawn newspaper said in its editorial.

This argument is deeply flawed as Pakistani intelligence agencies once provided logistical support to militant groups that could further "strategic depth" interests in Kashmir and Afghanistan, it said in the editorial "Pakistan under attack".

People arguing that terrorists who stormed the police training centre in Lahore and attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team earlier this month must have had the backing of a "foreign power" are overlooking "the fact that those who were freedom fighters a few years ago and are now labelled as terrorists were trained by the best in the business," it said.

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