Adil Najam
Just how inhuman can the murderous zeal of fanatics be?
Here are the essential facts: Two suicide killers, hiding behind burqas, murdered more than 40 people, and injured another 60+, in two explosions minutes apart, at an IDP (internally displaced peoples) refugee camp at Katcha Pakka near Kohat, as they gathered to register for relief goods and as food was being distributed to them.
Yes, you read it right.
They murdered people who have already been made homeless. They killed people gathered to collect food and relief goods. They killed deliberately. They murdered on purpose. This was not an accident or bad planning. They had planned to kill. They had wanted to murder. They planned to kill women and children and innocent civilians.
That is exactly what they wanted to do. That is exactly what they did.
This is neither unique as an incident nor unique in its brutality and inhumanity.
Yesterday, it was a hospital – yes, hospital – that was attacked in Quetta where Muslims were mourning the death of a murdered Shia leader.
The butchers were butchering. Deliberately. Purposefully. Inhumanly.
The blood boils, eyes swell up and humanity cries whenever an innocent soul is killed. No matter why. No matter by whom. No matter how. But when the murder is so callous, so planned, so deliberate, so inhuman, the heart skips a beat, the mind is baffled, and something dies within each one of us. There is nothing more left to say.
What can one say that has not been said before. One seethes in ones anger. One sends out a silent prayer. One wipes off the tears. And one stares into the darkness. Trying desperately, trying senselessly, trying uselessly, to understand why anyone could do such a thing. How anyone could do such a thing.
One stares into the darkness. Knowing full well that no darkness known to man could be darker than the darkness that breeds this murder.
and here’s one of my old admirers, mr,akif nizam,who just pops out to respond me.
“that jews don’t have horns on their heads, that hindus don’t breathe fire ”
and liberals like you believe in “religiously” that all this done by muslims hence eliminate them since they are worthless creatures in pakistan. After all jinnah’s distorted speech gave you license to impose your views.
akif, staying in basement is several times better than a pub and that too at expense of some American friend ;)
calling me “taliban sympathizer”, these days the most taliban sympathizers are none other than india,us and then uk. even karzai chanted to be a “next taliban”. i know that left wingers of Pakistan does not even have moral courage to curse US and INdia for their overnight shift towards Talibans. liberals are throwing up their frustration on others because thats all helpless and useless souls can do.
while browsing the comments of the thread, i found few kids using the liberty of masked swearing while expressing their concerns. I think most of the toddlers are out to “battle” with their enemies rather than some serious group to tackle with their opponents.
I think Adnaan’s mom needs to take his laptop away and let him get out of the basement once in a while so he can experience the real world. Where he can choose real people as his role models than from the fairy tales that he has been fed.
Where he can see for himself that the world is not out to get him, that jews don’t have horns on their heads, that hindus don’t breathe fire and that it’s okay to come out from under his bed without a suicide vest on.
@ Adnan, the term “Taliban Apologist” does not deem right for you absurd even beyond this connotation. Samar Minllah did “Categorically” refute the news story in her daily times article.
Here is the link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010 44\story_4-4-2010_pg3_4
You are indeed the visionary who can see the “hidden hand” behind the Kohat massacre but you fail to see the Taliban atrocity even they claim their blatant acts of violence. I don’t seem to find anyone in this post that supports your flawed thinking. Please take this bundle of humiliation to Tora Bora and tell Mullah Umar that his propaganda is futile.
This is also a story of resistance by the Pakistani people. The Taliban make their practices more and more cruel because Pakistanis are resisting and fighting back. That is the good news here.
@salman. I believe media has now become an industry. It does play in the hands of some stakeholders who give rise to this propaganda but forget the JEWS man!! Its about our own weakness. We the people have become so weak that it is so easy for them to manipulate them. Its not their fault its OUR fault.