Adil Najam
Pakistan is in tears today. Yet again.
70+ people are dead in Wah today, as yet another cursed suicide bomber targets Pakistan and Pakistanis. The Tehrik-i-Taliban has taken responsibility for them. Only two days ago, 32 people were killed in a suicide attack on a hospital in the northern town of Dera Ismail Khan. Meanwhile incursions and attacks into Pakistani territory by American forces continue and fighting between militants and Pakistani forces rages in Bajur and other areas, killing even more.
In what continues to be war on and in Pakistan, Pakistanis continue to die. Pakistan continues to cry.
Some will call it the largest legacy of the Musharraf years. Some will read unstated messages within this murder and mayhem by these killers. Others will see it as the price in dead bodies that Pakistan pays in the War on Terror. Yet others will remind us that this is reaping what Gen. Zia-ul-haq sowed. There will be, I am sure, plenty more pontifications too - ranging from the absurd to the absurdly profound.
All I know is that today, yet again, Pakistanis die. Pakistan continues to cry.
Why must this murder and mayhem continue? I ask. When will it end? These, of course, are absurd questions themselves. Because we all know the answers. It will continue for as long as we let the killers kill and support their murders with our silence. Silence, of course, also kills. And some are condemned to cry silently.
Pure EVIL!!!!!!!!!…..
I am here on this blog after almost a year. This Blog turned from anti musharraf to love for Musharraf?
I read through these comments and wonder if these murders are actualy succeeding. Their mission is to make Pakistani fight other Pakistanis, to divide the people, to have people fight bitterly over nothingness, to destroy the country. They seem to be succeeding in exactly that!
Why are all you people blaming the Taliban who are Muslims and not blaming the Americans. They are the ones responsible for these killings.
Dear Adil Najam, your heartfelt cry of pain and what is happening to our country speaks the feelings of all Pakistanis today. This madness must stop.
I am think that ordinary Pakistanis are realizing that these people preaching hatred in teh name or religion are our true enemies. Enemies of Pakistan and enemies of Islam.
It does seem that the tide is turning. More and more Pakistanis are realizing that these Taliban Mullah types are really Pakistan’s enemies.
Another day in “mumlikat-e-khudadad”. Few dozen other people killed and the nation is finding it hard to blame the culprits. As a human, my heart goes out for the innocent victims, but I will say it out loud on this public forum that we as a nation deserve this.
We deserve it because we don’t have the ability to recognize our enemies. We deserve it because we don’t have the determination to eradicate those who are hell bent on killing our people. We deserve this because we are a country where our people show up in droves to attend the memorial ceremony of the vilians who died in Lal Masjid ( and our democratically elected government feeds them too) while the families of the real heroes have to remember their sons quietly.
Our enemies are determined to die for their cause while we sit as confused animals waiting to get slaughtered. I can tell you with 100% certainty that a confused nation can never win this war.