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?
Fellow readers, you have to decide whether secular Pakistan was good which Jinnah brought or Religious Pakistan where religion has not been defined and it is left to the fancy of some mullah: where majority of illiterate muslim who look for the definition, without reading the book itself, at the hands of uneducated hate pumping so called scholars of Islam. Think how important it is to understand what you recite and read.
I can’t help but look favorably at Ata Turk Kamal who made his mission that the Turks should read the Koran in their own language, everyday language in order to make it peaceful and for that reason Turkey is peaceful because they read the book in their own language. Peace will not come until we have a forceful and fearless leader in Pakistan. May God have mercy on the families of those who are losing their loved ones at the hands of these fools who push paradise and those who are looking for paradise and the reward thereof. Pakistan should decide and Pakistanis should choose which sect is Koranic and which one is not. Till then we will have chaos we will have deaths and our brothers and sisters will lose brothers, fathers and mothers will lose their children and their support and their future, wives will lose husbands, children will lose their fathers, some ones uncle is sacrificed needlessly and above all country will lose its citizen uselessly, needlessly and maliciously. When will you guys wake up and when will you guys start dragging those who have attacked you family and their peace and give them justice in the name of peace and family security and preservation.
Even in Islamabad media is not safe.
Jang Rawalpindi offices were attacked and Hamid Mir given death threats by molvis yesterday;
http://jang.com.pk/jang/apr2009-daily/06-04-2009/topst/main14.gif
Why can’t molvis use reasoning for a change? Threats only imply allegations by Hamid Mir were correct.
I fully and unreservedly agree with Yasmeen, Rabia and Taha.
I assure you if Quaid-i-Azam were alive today, these Taliban supporters would call him a heretic, a US-agent and a liberal fascist.
I wonder why no one talks about 20,000 odd madrasas which are breeding grounds for hatred and jihadism?
And why are terrorist outfits like SSP and LJ allowed to operate with impunity?
I think all Taliban and their supporters must be treated as murderers.