The writer is a security analyst. THE recent surge in sectarian violence has done two things. First, it has highlighted the challenges and vulnerabilities the country’s security and law-enforcement forces face in countering terrorism. Second, it has brought to the fore some critical, long-standing questions about the state’s resolve and efforts to counter religiously inspired extremism, mainly violent sectarianism. Violent sectarian organisations are apparently shifting their territorial focus while law-enforcement agencies struggle to chase and…