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.
People on this forum are jumping on Talibans as if they are the source of all evil in Pakistan. AFAIK, so far Talibans have not been convicted in any court of law. All propaganda against them is based on conjectures and lies. We do not have the courage to say that Americans and Indians are behind the crisis in Pakistan. Therefore we have found an easy scapegoat in poor Talibans. Their only fault is that they are lovers of our Rasool (PBUH) and Islamic values.
Just think over it:
If Pakistan is destroyed, do Talibans gain anything? The answer is “No”. They need Pakistan to practice Islam.
If Pakistan is destroyed, do Indians gain anything? The answer is a resounding “Yes”.
Pure EVIL!!!!!!!!!…..
I am here on this blog after almost a year. This Blog turned from anti musharraf to love for Musharraf?
I read through these comments and wonder if these murders are actualy succeeding. Their mission is to make Pakistani fight other Pakistanis, to divide the people, to have people fight bitterly over nothingness, to destroy the country. They seem to be succeeding in exactly that!
Why are all you people blaming the Taliban who are Muslims and not blaming the Americans. They are the ones responsible for these killings.