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?
An excellent article – A warning to heed http://tinyurl.com/djphcr
Correction ATP Administrator, this wasn’t a murder of ’30 Pakistani Muslims’, this was a murder of 30 Pakistani’s. Period.
People in Pakistan are afraid to speak up against anything that has the remotest link to religion. These tragedies are a result of neglecting regions like FATA and allowing mullahs to run loose for the last 62 years. The analogy is simple, if one doesn’t clean house, the house gets dirty over time until one is forced to clean it. We have the means to cleanse our society of this scum. But those means are used against the occupants of this house and not to clean the dirt. we have worshipped, glorified and deified our military since existence. Now is their moment to repay the nation – not by planning and fighting wars with neighbors but to fight the war within. Not to disrupt a corrupt yet democratic setup but to pay their dues and do their job, fight the true enemies of Pakistan wherever they may be. A half hearted effort where only foot soldiers die and helicopters fire a few rockets here and there wont solve the problem. This cancer needs to be removed from society by major surgery to restore peace to a nation -a majority of which doesn’t subscribe to the barbarism these scumbags perpetrate on people around them.
We are all very fond of blaming outsiders for all our problems. But it is clear that the real killers of Muslims are Muslims themselves.
May those who did this and planned this rot in hell!
This post has been updated to include the horrendous murder of nearly 30 Pakistani Muslims in Chakwal today by another suicide bomber.
@Shiraz
The solution to any problem begins by identifying and acknowledging the problem. In Pakistan’s case, a majority of people don’t even acknowledge that there is a problem. Hence the first part of the problem is to make people realise that there is indeed a problem; the solution will come as the next step.
First we expose people like Imran Khan who support murderers and criminals, then we go after the murderers and criminals.