Lately no news coming out of Pakistan seem to be good news. This afternoon I started writing about Benazir’s return in lighter words focusing on hilarious statements coming out of our politicians on her return and then this horrific news of scores of people dead started coming in. My lighter mood vanished totally and now I am left wihout words and more questions like, Why? Who? what now? etc.
The headline news on CNN reads as follows right now:
An explosion near the motorcade of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 110 people and injured 200 more, officials say. Bhutto, returning after years in exile, reportedly was unhurt.
While we are glad that she remained safe, our sincere prayers are with those innocents who lost their lives.
zabt laazim hai magar dukh hai qayamat ka
zalim ab ke bhi na roay ga to mar jaaye ga
Never ceases to amaze me how many amongst us would concoct and put their faith in conspiracy theories before they consider the obvious. Here we have a situation where two days before an event, a certain group issues a threat of a suicide attack at the time of Benazir’s arrival, a group that is known to carry out such attacks all the time, a group that regularly beheads any opposition and even our soldiers, a group that bombs tailoring shops, barber shops and music shops almost every week. But why listen to that ! Immediately, theories start floating as to the involvements of ISI, the administration or even PPP itself by some. It’s exactly the same thing as the 9/11 attacks. Everyone else but the party who claims to have carried out the outrage is guilty in our corner of the world.
Why is that, one may ask ? Let me suggest the obvious without too much beating about the bush. It’s because despite all the evidence to the contrary, most of us are unwilling to admit that the Islamic world has a problem
May Allah ta’ala destroy the extremists who were behind this for tarnishing the name of Islam and the memory of the Beloved Muhammad sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam!!!
The people of Pakistan need to recognize terrorism as a reality and support the govt and security forces in their efforts. Its either the terrorists or you.
Let’s get this straight…we should not indulge in open political activities (are we free at any level?) because terr0rists can attack?
Those ppl who are blaming establishment instead of Taliban are islamist. They can not accept that their righteous fellows have a problem.