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The opinions, interests, whining and wayward fancies of an eighteen a nineteen twenty year-old Muslim living in a medley of social, religious, non-religious and political chaos that is today’s Pakistan.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Yet again ... another bombing


After Karachi’s worst bombing in nearly two decades, 57 people dying, Sheikh Rashid, our very own Federal Minister of Misinformation , says talking to private channel here in Pakistan :

“Terrorists days are numbered and we would soon wipe out terrorist elements operating in the country.”
As we, the people of Pakistan are accustomed to expect, we know there is not going to have any sort of impartial inquiry into this attack. It’s too familiar. Same old routine. 1. An attack. Step 2. Political parties hinting conspiracy. Step 3.Everyone running their own agenda. Nothing done. A committee formed perhaps but nothing substantial results. Step 4.The attacks, the people forgotton.

Eg, they have already started to point towards a government involvement(which I submit is quite possible):


"Qazi Hussain Ahmed said a conspiracy was being hatched to push the religious leadership out of the way and let secular forces prosper in the country. He said the enemies of religious forces in Pakistan had carried out the attack, which had claimed many lives. He said the only way to overcome the situation was to accelerate efforts to implement an Islamic system and Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) ideology in the country.

Is there something, some hope, some hidden stars behind these dark clouds that might lead me into thinking that no, there is no need to despair; we soon are going to be fortunate enough to know who was behind this?

Frustration. Extreme Frustration. That’s what it is. And so I am ranting about the ‘usual’ stuff. The ‘usual’ killings. In the usual words.

Okay I am being a pessimist over here. Let me know of something to change that. Please.

There are a million questions and I don’t have the answers. I don’t know where to go and get them.
Can anyone tell me, for instance, who those angry mobs were? The ones who set fire to petrol pumps, and several cars. Just normal people? Or hidden government ‘agents’ trying to ‘tarnish the image of religious parties’ or ‘some mysterious force trying to blacken the image of Islam’? Who were the bombers? Who was behind them. Does it all point to a ‘Shia-Sunni’ strife? Or does it go beyond that? Something deeper. Some conspiracy? Something that mere normal individuals like me, don’t have the right to know. What do I lead my mind into thinking? It’s spinning and knows not where to stop and look and what to believe.
All a web of lies.

5 Comments:

  • At 11:16 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    err when you do get answers for your questions, post them here too cuz im as eager to know as you are but I think all is gonna be in vain and it'll be same ole.

    Acha aur aik cheez ye kay, this will just repeat itself...soon enough... and average individuals like us can't do anything about it at all..kaash...if we could change it...someday if not today

     
  • At 5:21 PM, Blogger Hira said…

    I have no answers ...

    Maybe if we could change ourselves ... one by one ... and then disseminate the message of peace. Of tolerance and trying to understand. Through as many ways as we can. Maybe it'll spread like a ripple. I know its sort of simplistic, what I am saying. But simple solutions might work wonders.

     
  • At 4:13 PM, Blogger Hira said…

    Oh yeah we are all paedophiles. Don't come near us.
    I don't know why I am even bothering to reply really.

     
  • At 12:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    why do u even allow these prejudiced ppl's comments?

     
  • At 1:31 PM, Blogger Hira said…

    Why try to erase something that is unpalatable (even if its not true)? Won't that be a double standard, in some way?

    Besides, not publishing won't really change the way they think. So I let them remain.

     

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