Adil Najam
UPDATE: April 5: More Pakistani Muslims – this time 30 in Chakwal – were martyred today by the enemies of Pakistan. Here are details from The News:
At least 24 persons died and 35 were injured at the Imambargah suicide bombing here. One killer blew himself up with explosives during annual Majlis Aza being held at the Imambargah located in the centre of the town at Mohala Sarpak of City police station area. The blast ripped apart the bodies of the faithful at the Imambargah, leaving a horrific scene of scattered body parts and blood all around the incident site.
Eyewitnesses said that following a Majlis, the faithful had crowded the main gate of the Imambargah, while those entering into the Imambargah were being frisked, when a youth 16/17 year old during checking blew himself up, which resulted in on the spot death of 20 persons, while the other four succumbed to their injuries in hospital. Four children were also included among the dead, they said. The bodies and the injured were shifted to the Chakwal District Headquarter Hospital, while some injured were sent to Rawalpindi.
Ambulances from Rawalpindi and Jhelum reached the scene of incident and stated relief operations. High police officials, DCO and heavy contingents of police also arrived following the blast. The police besieging the area have collected the evidences. Several vehicles were also damaged in the blast. Large number of people had thronged the hospital for finding out the welfare of their relatives, while the town remains drowned in an environment of mourning.
Six more Pakistanis were killed today by the enemies of Pakistan in a suicide attack in F-7 Islamabad. According to The News:
Six security men were killed and several others injured in a suicide blast near check post of Frontier Corps (FC) in Sector F-7/3 Margala Road, Islamabad on Saturday, Geo News reported. SSP Tahir Alam said security men were taking dinner when the attacker entered the check post and blew himself up, killing six of the security men and injuring several others. He denied any exchange of fire, saying the security men fired in the air to scare away any other attackers. Police has cordoned off the area. The injured have been brought to Poly Clinic Hospital. The incident has set off panic among area residents.
This is just more in the ongoing war on Pakistan by the enemies of Pakistan. Mosques are targeted in Jamrud, little girls are flogged in Swat, attacks are conducted in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and everywhere in between, political leaders are assassinated in Karachi, everyday and everywhere the enemy is within us and killing us in every way. It does not help that our so-called friends are also bombing and killing Pakistanis.
But why, oh why, are too many are still reluctant to call these suicide bombing murderers what they are. How may Pakistanis must they kill off before Pakistanis recognize the face of the enemies of Pakistan?
Today, April 4, former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was killed by Gen. Zia-ul-Haq. The killing has not stopped ever since. It is not that there was not killing before that. Even Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was himself no angel. But the demons unleashed by the this and other actions of Zia-ul-Haq continue to grow in size and sway over society. What will it take to push these demons back?
Sad and horrific. Very scary indeed.
As Imran Khan said in a recent interview, it is time for Pakistan to pull out of the war-on-terror. It is only creating more, so now is the time to leave it. NOW.
To better understand we need to read historical accounts of Kharji movements and other religious cults (Hashashin/Assasins). I am confident that we will unearth the few good lessons.
During those times the honorable men did not take stern action against them and when they did it was too late. The movement had already grown and caused irreversible damage. The Kharijis killed Hazrat Ali and made attempt at the life of Muviya. On the other hand, Assasins were so adept that their terror techniques that they killed one of the best Wazir of the time Tusi.
I also believe that historical we muslims did not develop ways and means to resolve differences differences in amicable manner through process and procdures rather we sorted our business with sword since everything everything becomes a battle for right and wrong ( halal vs. haram iman vs. kufr) and pragmatism and reasonableness is lost.
In the end, I will just say what once Abraham Lincoln reminded confused Americans during the civil war era what was their job “peserve, protect, and defend” and we must!!!
This is another sad sad day.
you are right in calling these the real enemies of Pakistan . They are also the enemies of Islam. But is most of society ready to tackle them when many are not even ready to accept them as enemies and keep making excuses for these murderers and killers?
You are right also in raising the point about Zia on this day the death anniversary of ZAB. History will remember Zia as the beginning of the end of Pakistan and these mullahs who had always hated Pakistan and opposed it are now the ones fight a war against Pakistan.
The only way Pakistan can push the demons back is to first be clear whether the majority really wants to push them back. I don’t think it does.
Zia managed to spread his ideas so easily because the majority were already receptive to them.
Horrific. Horrific. Horrific.