Adil Najam
This photograph from the Swat region needs little commentary, but deserves much thought.
The caption from Associated Press (photograph by Sherin Zada), reads in part:
A youngster sits beside his belongings as he waits for his parents to cross a river as they flee from a troubled area in Imam Dheri near Mingora, the main town of Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.
One wonders what is going through the child’s head. With the Taliban after his body and soul, with civilian casualties in the military operation in Swat mounting, with American drone attacks in the tribal belt further away, and with a polity in chaos in the rest of the country, it is not as if he has too many options to fall back on. He seems to be looking pensively (possibly across the river); but to what?
@Nostalgic
Well said! I wonder when will they recapture Pakistan?
The army chose sides after 9/11 and has the contributions, sacrifices and actions to prove it. Its is the people of Pakistan who were living in denial all these years.
Support army in fight against terrorists, don’t seek excuses to blame everyone but yourself.
I want to share with you a young youth Muzafar
“Disgusting” is the army’s double games… it is they who must “choose a side”, for once and for all…
BBCUrdu reports that they’ve claimed the capture of Charbagh… fingers crossed that they do the job for once…
Please read the following article on the same issue
http://kashifhafeez.com/mazameen_large.php?path=20 09-02-01&img=kh_articles/large/2009-02-01.gif