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
To Akif Nizam
Well said.I could not agree more with your comments.We have to think hard about this religious extremism and intolerance which exist in our society.We have to do something collectively . Few things we can do are as follows.
1- not to give excuses for extremism .
2- not to justify these brutal acts.
3- not to blame victims
benazir ko wapis nahe ana chahiyay tha ,
unki wjah sy bht sy log apny rishtadaru say bitcher gay ,
yeh humare mulk kay leay bura he humara mazhab ijazat nahe daita k kissi masoom or by gunah ko saza de jae mgr benazir ke wjah say bht sy masoom logo ke jan gae .
itny masoom logo ke jan gae ,,,
yeh kisss ka qasoor he ?
I am heartened to read that several here have identified the real issues here and they relate to ‘ghareeb’ hapless awaam that had come to walk with BB’s truck
If we believe in freedom of political activity and association, then we must respect and uphold the right of a political party to hold rallies and express its support for their leader even if some of us hate her.
Please have a heart and accept the fact that we have a wave of militancy that is ATTACKING innocent lives. This is neither allowed by the law, nor the religion or humanist principles.
Salaam and peace!
@Akif: If you read today’s papers… Benazir clearly condemned IB(Intelligence Beau rue) for the attack rather Baitullah Mehsood or other Talibans. Even Mehsood’s statement came in papers that he didn’t give any such statement.
Even B.B again didn’t blame Talibans or Mehsud in her recent press conference and she clearly said she knew who wanted to kill her. Definitely she’s blaming agencies again this why Musharraf had to call B.B and requested her not to blame Army or agency people. A taliban spokes man made a statement before BiBI’s press conference that Talibans are not behind such attacks. Following is the excerpt of BiBi’s press conference:
tinyurl.com/3bxnby
Street lights turned off, BiBi went inside and then a big bang!! something is really fishy here.
Akif, keep yourself updated all the time otherwise your statement(s) could become reason of embarrassment on public forums.
STOP!Stop this madness…take a step back,is all this worth it?
No ,not in my name,not in the name of Islam,not in the name of democracy,not in the name of politics .But please in the name of humanity please Stop this madness!