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
iFaqeer agreed. Would like to see politicians across political divide to go to vicitm homes and do condolance instead of ‘akhbari statements’. That will show their sincerity and may earn them the credibility they need.
Let me add a fifth point
(5) If ISI is indeed behind this then MUSHs warning to BB does make sense. He had to win both ways. BB will now listen to him in future or else its too easy then ever before to eliminate an opponent and throw the blame onto Shiddat and Intiha pasand.
So you see one blast changed the WORLD upside down:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/0 71018_blast_reaction_sen.shtml
Everyone, even UNO is into it & USA, as ever has its own typical ANTI-mullah statement ready at its desk.
This is the last couple of stanzas from Agha Shahid Ali’s translation of Faiz’s poetry in “The Rebel’s Silhouette.” Its the only way I can express my emotions.
You Tell Us What to Do
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
When we saw the wounds of our country
appear on our skins,
we believed each word of the healers.
Besides, we remembered so many cures,
it seemed at any moment
all troubles would end, each wound healed completely.
That didn
I agree with tee bee’s words too.
I was saying on KMB:
What I’d like to see is BB, Farooq Sattar, Imran Khan, and any other politician that cares to spend the time between now and January 15th going from home to home visiting the families of the people who died today.