Adil Najam
Pakistan is in tears today. Yet again.
70+ people are dead in Wah today, as yet another cursed suicide bomber targets Pakistan and Pakistanis. The Tehrik-i-Taliban has taken responsibility for them. Only two days ago, 32 people were killed in a suicide attack on a hospital in the northern town of Dera Ismail Khan. Meanwhile incursions and attacks into Pakistani territory by American forces continue and fighting between militants and Pakistani forces rages in Bajur and other areas, killing even more.
In what continues to be war on and in Pakistan, Pakistanis continue to die. Pakistan continues to cry.
Some will call it the largest legacy of the Musharraf years. Some will read unstated messages within this murder and mayhem by these killers. Others will see it as the price in dead bodies that Pakistan pays in the War on Terror. Yet others will remind us that this is reaping what Gen. Zia-ul-haq sowed. There will be, I am sure, plenty more pontifications too – ranging from the absurd to the absurdly profound.
All I know is that today, yet again, Pakistanis die. Pakistan continues to cry.
Why must this murder and mayhem continue? I ask. When will it end? These, of course, are absurd questions themselves. Because we all know the answers. It will continue for as long as we let the killers kill and support their murders with our silence. Silence, of course, also kills. And some are condemned to cry silently.
Dear Adil Najam, your heartfelt cry of pain and what is happening to our country speaks the feelings of all Pakistanis today. This madness must stop.
I am think that ordinary Pakistanis are realizing that these people preaching hatred in teh name or religion are our true enemies. Enemies of Pakistan and enemies of Islam.
It does seem that the tide is turning. More and more Pakistanis are realizing that these Taliban Mullah types are really Pakistan’s enemies.
Another day in “mumlikat-e-khudadad”. Few dozen other people killed and the nation is finding it hard to blame the culprits. As a human, my heart goes out for the innocent victims, but I will say it out loud on this public forum that we as a nation deserve this.
We deserve it because we don’t have the ability to recognize our enemies. We deserve it because we don’t have the determination to eradicate those who are hell bent on killing our people. We deserve this because we are a country where our people show up in droves to attend the memorial ceremony of the vilians who died in Lal Masjid ( and our democratically elected government feeds them too) while the families of the real heroes have to remember their sons quietly.
Our enemies are determined to die for their cause while we sit as confused animals waiting to get slaughtered. I can tell you with 100% certainty that a confused nation can never win this war.
From THE NEWS:
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan People’s Party was on Friday informed about the possibility of a woman becoming the country’s president while Aitzaz Ahsan spoke his mind without mincing his words on the wavering policy of the party co-chairperson on the issue of the judges’ restoration.
According to the party sources, while the dominant majority supported Asif Ali Zardari as the future president of Pakistan, he left his audience guessing by saying that the PPP nominee for the post might be a woman. He did not elaborate and no one enquired from him who that lady could be.
While Rehman Malik marked his presence by chanting a slogan in favour of the party co-chairperson towards the conclusion of the meeting, it was the day of Aitzaz Ahsan who fearlessly called a spade a spade and warned his party co-chairperson that if he did not restore all the deposed judges immediately, his credibility would be seriously harmed.
Aitzaz told his top party leader that despite making three pledges, he had not restored the November 2 judiciary, which was harming his credibility. Aitzaz insisted that Asif Ali Zardari should fulfill his commitments with regard to the reinstatement of the judiciary to the November 2 position.
Although, Asif Ali Zardari was reported to have said that he would get the judges restored, he teased Aitzaz by asking as to what these judges had done to him when he (Zardari) was in jail for nine years. When Aitzaz urged his leader to keep his words, Asif Zardari responded that irrespective of what he had signed or said, he would do what would suit his plan.
According to these sources, the judges’ issue, the most serious issue threatening the coalition, was generally given cold shoulder by the CEC.Only three members