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?
Someone should take responsibility of the situation in Pakistan, be it Interior Minister or Prime Minister and step down!!!!
We have reached to 50 comments so lets move on to suicide incident in Chakwal and start discussion again ?
Lets start blaming all dead people (Zia), Army, Agencies, Aliens, West, Left, Right, Middle.
Lets NOT focus on solutions, lets focus on discussion for discussion sake and re-repeat same arguments again and again.
To those Taliban apologists in the media who say that the current wave of terrorism is a result of Pakistan’s support to the Americans after 2001, I say: have you forgotten the sectarian killings of the 1990s in which hundreds of innocent Pakistanis were killed? All sectarian organisations operating in Pakistan have close links with the Taliban and are indistinguishable from them. The only difference is that before 2001 they only targetted Shias; now they attack all symbols of the Pakistani state.
If some self-styled analysts want to live in denial about the threat posed by Taliban terrorism, that is their choice. But their pernicious propaganda should be forcefully rebutted.
The majority does not vote for religious parties because they do not believe they can govern. They do not believe they can give jobs. They have no credentials in these areas. But that does not mean that the majority does not agree, reasonably closely, with their religious thinking. Same as they did with Zia’s, despite being opposed to his anti-democratic and extra-constitutional acts. This is similar to Bangladesh, except Zia – with the Afghan War, strategic depth, and then Kashmir, went a fair way further than Irshad.
The majority of Pakistanis want an Islamic democracy. They want the laws against Qadianis to continue. They want the death penalty for blashpemers. Why, they proudly claim how they would rather take care of blasphemers with ‘their own hands’. They are for Islamisation, as they were for Zia’s. Their hope and wish is nifaz e sharia. Their panacea.
They don’t like what they see in Swat. But they are confused. They see it as a perversion and not the logical result of Zia-ism, LeT, supporting Taliban in Afghanistan, and dropping them on America (and not our conscience’s) say so. The majority wish only to return to Islamisation rather than a violent perversion of it. Hence the equivocation in the media. They are afraid of throwing the baby out with the bath water. They are happy with religiosity, bigotry and supremacy of article 2A over parliament. They just don’t want violence in their own country. Good luck to them.
Another day, another bomb, another atrocity committed in the name of Islam by those who believe that apart from them all other Muslims are