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.
No muslim will engage in this kind of senseless violence.
Aamir
past is past we must unite and support good things by present Government if any for the sake of better Pakistan.
In the early days of Islam, there was a sect called Kharaji..they were responsible for the shahadat of Hazrat Ali. They were the fitna of that time. And they were the puritans. They thought they were following the real Islam. Talibans are nothing but a carbon copy of the fitna. They should be dealth with accordingly.
These bombings happen because Pakistanis are a nation of cowards who hold everyone but the bombers responsible for their actions.
If Pakistani awam had supported the war on terrorism, we would not be seeing this today.
Senseless! Barbaric! Total butchery!
No religion in world approves of such kind of mayhem and violence where only innocent people die. Islam, a religion of peace and understanding, in particular rejects such killings.
There is an urgent need of a country-wide campaign involving all segments of the society especially our religious ulemas and political parties to reject this kind of violence and call such practices as totally out of the ambit of Islamic teachings. We need to do something earnestly to stop the brainwashing and exploitation of our youths who are being turned into suicide bombers by these so called ‘Talibans’.