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?
It is the role of the military that shoudl also be questioned. How come with all tehir arms and resources they have not been able to control these Kafir Tablibans?
There is no greater coward or baighairat than a suicide bomber. They burn in hell but dont even have the guts to face the consequences of their evil act here.
Have you ever wondered why if the Pakistani mainstream is so close to the religious ideals of the likes of Zia, has not a single religious party ever even come remotely close to winning an election in Pakistan? Furthermore, I don’t believe Zia needed the masses’ permission or even acknowledgement to do what he did.
The average middle class educated Pakistani does not support Taliban.
Again, you see all the political leaders quiet and not really showing teh anger that is seething in all the public.
ZAB’s act of making the Ahmadis was an act of cowardice. But I would also like people to read Stanley Wolpert’s ‘Zulfi of Pakistan’ to understand the circumstances under which ZAB capitulated–against his own instincts.
A feudal ZAB may have been. An ego-maniac he may have been. But a religious bigot he was not. An act of cowardice ZAB did by declaring the Ahmadis as ‘Non Muslims’ was largely supported and prodded upon by a bigotted large numbers of Pakistanis. Then in 1976 ZAB tried again to appease the religious Right of Pakistan–almost certainly to ward-off some pressure and not by any deep religious convictions–but even that was too little, too late.
People fail to understand that ZAB was hanged not because of his personal ‘liberal’ outlook but because he, despite his feudal background, instituted policies which not only messed up Pakistan’s economy but also badly challenged the ‘moneyed-peopled’ through his ill-thought nationalization schemes. He flew too close to the sun and his wings got burned.
PS. I had to write this seemingly unrelated post here because someone keeps mentioning the tragedy of 2nd Const. Amendments without helping establish a perspective.