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?
Asad, countries and regions other than Pakistan have poverty and illiteracy. Why isn’t there flogging and beheading and global jihad there too? The state saying: ‘this type of muslim good’, ‘this type of muslim bad’ as it did under ZAB; Zia making the Objectives’ Resolution substantive part of the constitution so Parliament is no longer supreme. Sufi Muhammd saying ‘democracy is unislamic’ is indeed a logical node on that very trajectory. Is it not?
@ Mian,
Oh and I get what you are saying – I just think solving the Ahmadi issue has nothing to do with Taliban. Taliban exist for a different reason, have a different purpose, etc. For example, education and employment rate could be linked to the spread and hold of Taliban in regions; the Ahmadi issue, in my limited knowledge of the history and current socio-political situation of Pakistan, has very little if anything to do with Taliban. Two different things.
@Asad and Pinto
I typed my reply to pinto and message says:
“Your comment is awaiting moderation. April 4th, 2009 7:42 pm ”
If this is going to attitude of moderators of this forum, then what we should say about Pakistani nation.
Pinto i gave links so that you can read ‘From the horses mouth’. So go to
Lahore ahmadiyya Movement website:
ahmadiyya (dot) org
go to home page and read ‘Life of hazrat mirza ghulam Ahmad’ under ‘ahmadiyya movement’.
NO ASAD,
I am NOT saying:
“so now I
@Mian:
(Crap I typed up this whole reply and it didn’t get published – so I’m going to try again).
So what I was saying was, you can totally argue that what ZAB did (and not just ZAB but Zia as well; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_Muslim_Community read Persecution in 1984) was unjust. Nothing wrong with that. But to take solace in that, with this attitude of “Pakistan has always been a land of unjust. Some Pakistanis screwed my people over, so now I’m glad other people are screwing Pakistanis over” – you know better than that. You don’t want to pass on this attitude to your kids.
This is why I suggested two wrongs don’t make one right. Taliban are a menace of our society and that is it. If Taliban were selectively killing Ahmadis, there acts would be no more (and no less) despicable.
Adil, the same news are all over the place. The commentary here isn’t adding anything to the discussion either. The talking heads on media are only dividing the public opinion on the root causes and the required actions to deal with the situation. I know news and opinion sells to the Pakistani audience but this is pandering. And frankly you guys are no help to the question either.
In your own diatribe, you are refering to the american drone strikes as, “our so called friends are bombing and killing pakitanis.” And then very next line, next paragraph you are lamenting, us not recognizing these murderers for who they are. I am guessing, hoping, the third person in your narrative shifted from the americans to the taliban/alqaeda. That would be marginally better than calling Americans murderers. But then you are guilty of sowing the same confusion as every other analyst/academic/opinion maker on media. Why be a politician. Come out and say the Americans are doing us a favor. They are killing arabs and other fighters in every strike. With any luck on our part, they will soon get baitulah for us with one of these strikes.
But bearing bad news and chest beating for show are more fun. Carry on.