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.
@ Mustafa Kamal & His worthy partners in absurdity… Wasalaam and Ibrahim… for their utter joy in watching Pakistani Muslims being butchered like the heathens they are!
I dont know just when it was that you divorced yourself from reality but I hope that you at least got financially well compensated to cater for it…
either that or your just one of the many ‘jahaaz’ that ‘park’ themselves under chauburji in Lahore every night…Lahori’s will get this reference…
You say the Taliban have not been convicted in any court of law…wow thats a new one…
but your statement smells like an outright LIE when you have the Taliban claiming THEMSELVES that they have done this with much pride and glee…
JUST which of their actions reminds us of the Prophet (PBUH) is something Id like to be schooled on…but not from the likes of you…self hating Mullah Pakistani’s who cannot contain their smiles at the utter destruction of innocent lives…please take a good look at the faces of the women in the photo’s in this post…they look like wives and mothers crying with a helplessness that you and I can not even comprehend…yet you find pleasure in their pain….disgusting…
@Ibrahim…
just who in the world left you the sole arbitrer of what I as a Muslim must desire…you say that every Muslim should desire Sharia…I am a Muslim..a practicing one and have no desire for THIS kind of Sharia and I am sick of being told by self righteous Muslims like you just what to do with my faith…
If THIS is the kind of Sharia that you so desire then wallow in it…why in the world did you NOT migrate to pre-2001 afghanistan and subjected yourself and your children to the suffocating embrace of the beards….
you do not have the courage to follow through on your convictions yet you feel that Pakistani’s should be butchered to suit what you want….sickening…
I believe that it is time that whenever and wherever we see people…friends and colleagues talking such garbage we should call them out on their lies and deceit and utter contempt for Pakistani lives….As I have made my habit to do so..I have lost friends and am not the most popular man by far but my conciense is clean….
we need to socially isolate people like Mustafa Kamal/Ibrahim and Wasalaam and other Mullah’s who would see our kids die with glee….
This is my Holy struggle..with my keystrokes and with my tongue…I urge others to follow suit….it is the LEAST you can do…your deen demands you to stand up to the modern day Khawarji’s..
More killings by these murderers today. This really is war on Pakistan by the Talibans.
So whats the concrete solution guys?
For the love of God stop acting like ostriches (or pigeons since there is soooo much emphasis on religion) …. quit blaming Americans and the “Western world” for all our miseries … John Smith and Joe Blow are not blowing themselves up to kill us, ironically it is Mohammed Shafiq and Mustafa Ahmed who have been brain washed by the perverted view of Islam by the Mullahs. It is the ignorance of not questioning anything that is leading people to blindly follow these mullahs and kill themselves and innocent people. ANYONE who says either you follow my religion exactly as I do or else you are liable to die is NOT even a human being let alone a Muslim.
Mustafa:
The Taliban are terrorists who sabotage infrastructure, send suicide bombers, explode car bombs, kill civilians, police, and army, burn down girls schools and attack businesses and NGO’s.
That makes the Taliban evil and un-Islamic. You need to develop the courage to call a terrorist a terrorist.