Owais Mughal
As of right now, time is 8:31 p.m CST and following are the first 4 out of 6 headlines on front page of Pakistan’s largest English daily.
(1) Lahore: Spate of attacks leaves 27 dead, 30 injured.
(2) Quetta: Two injured in grenade attack
(3) Peshawar: Huge blast strikes, several injured
(4) Kohat: Eleven killed in suicide attack
What has World come up to? What has happened to my dear Pakistan where I used to roam care free? I can also wirte a long ‘jazbaati’ post but words have lost meanings in these numbing times. The truth is that I am also out of words to express myself to any more superlatives of anguish and sorrow. The same sad story has been written and discussed several times at ATP pages in past 2 years. It is also a reason that it took me several hours to finally come around and write this post. Very naively I was hoping for all bad news to somehow go away so I don’t have to write this. How childish of me.
We want peace. I want peace.
tum apne aqeedoN ke nezay, har dil mein utaare jaate ho
ham log mohabbat waale hain, tum khanjar kiyooN lehraate ho
is shehr meiN naghme behnay do
is shehr meiN hum ko rehnay do
ham paalun-har haiN phooloN ke, hum khushboo ke rakh-waale haiN
tum kis ka lahoo peene aaye, hum pyar sikhaane waale haiN
Ahmed Faraz
This is “OUR” war.
as per Mustansar Hussain Tarrar, “HOOR CHOPO” :)
I agree with everything you have said. It’s mind boggling & words can’t even begin to describe the enormity of the task that our country faces. We are living in troubled times, & we Pakistanis are so tired of hearing bad news again & again. Hope our rulers can come to their senses & concentrate on the job. May Allah keep my country & its people safe.The common man deserves better, much better.
I agree with Owais. One can talk about formulating new strategies to defeat these groups, analyze, etc but Pakistan has been through so much violence in recent days that ANYTHING that stops the bloodletting would be welcomed with open arms.
Throughout my life I believed in pacifism. I thought no violence is justified, no matter what. And now I think how wrong I was. It doesn’t mean that I no more believe in nonviolence. I really do, however, if one can make an exception, this is the time. Because the enemy we have been confronting is so cruel, their tactics are so barbaric and their belief system is so delusional that no one can reason with them, It not the time to preach or lecture them about the sanctity of life. That time is over this is the time to act and act decisively with full force of the state to eliminate these monsters once and forever.
Nero (Pakistan Army’s South Waziristan operation) fiddled while Rome (Pakistan) burned.
I feel very sorry for innocent Pakistani citizens.