Heri dicebamus: “The Balakot camp is again fully operational at both levels: the religious and the military one. In the past months 100-150 boys between 9 and 18 years have started their training and their indoctrination in religion and theology. At least 35 cadres of JeM have started their military training there, under the supervision of senior JeM functionaries like the Operational Commander Abdul Rauf Ashgar. Launching Commander Qari Zarrar and Ibrahim Azhar have also visited the Balakot camp to supervise the training”.
This rhetorical device “heri dicebamus” was used in the twentieth century by Gustave Cohen at Sorbonne, at the resumption of teaching after the parenthesis of the German invasion of France during World War II. Upon returning to his class, he resumed the courses forcibly interrupted. As if nothing had happened after long years of painful forced absence, Cohen then began his lesson by uttering a phrase that remained memorable: "Heri dicebamus”, Latin for “As I was saying”.