Blitzed
By Guest Blogger • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 3 CommentsExtremism, whatever the historical reasons that are bent around trying to understand it and place it in our national and cultural context, now envelops all of us in a deadly and debilitating cloud. There will be the usual cries that ‘those who did this are not Muslims’…but of course they were.
This was not some plot hatched and executed by mad Hindus or Sikhs, this is a plot that will have been hatched within a few miles of where the blast occurred, by men who believe that their piety and vision of a Muslim future world, wherein their own paradigm will rule supreme, is best achieved by shredding the bodies of their fellow Muslims. There are groups of extremists in every province, not all coordinated by any means nor sharing the same agenda, which are steadily eroding the national morale. The government is standing fast and firm in Waziristan, but the blowback is there for us all to see every day.
The forces of law and order, especially the police, are nowadays stretched beyond reasonable limits, and we should refrain from laying the blame at their door seconds after every blast or atrocity. Simply, the police are a finite resource – in every country – and those that we have here in Pakistan are poorly paid, badly equipped and often indifferently led. (We will leave aside issues relating to corruption for today.) Given that the police forces of every town and city across the land are just beginning to get to grips with the demands of securing the nations schools, their scant resources cannot be spread much thinner to provide security to every bazaar and shopping mall nationwide.
There will be other blasts in the future, as there have been today and in the past. Some terrorists we will intercept, but it only needs one to get through. The blitz they inflict on us may be awful but we must show our resolve, our unwillingness to be cowed, and say ‘No, you shall not pass, neither shall we give you relief….now get you hence, Beast, because this is our land, not yours.’
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The media should be responsible on how to manage a crime scene investigation. In a recent case, there was a rumor that there is a suicide bomber in the sector E-11/4 of Islamabad on Sunday night. It was reported by the media that one “suspect” had been shot down and another was on the loose. These kinds of things should not be reported in a way which can cause a sense of panic and anxiety around the area. Especially if it is a resident area involved like in this case.
It is not Hindus or Jews who are sending these human bombs in our Muslim community.
They are being bred in complete so called islamic values where they are sodomized, physically abused or psychologically confined by different techniques for higer awards after death due to their low IQ levels in extremist controlling our religious affairs.
In this war we are just eradicating the fruit of this tree of terrorism.
The roots and seed are still surviving around us and we are clearly ignoring them in our power games.
we should use pesticide to destroy the roots of this terrorism and they are our relgious clerics living around us as civilized parliamentarian .
But I am sure army managers want to secure and preserve them as they did to mqm leadership in 1980s
Poor Pakistani citizens are always blitzed by two or three sides without considering them normal human beings.
First biharis then poor swatis and it is also acknowledged by our locals and journalists too.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, says this to Seymour M. Hersh which he quoted in his latest article “defending the arsenal”
Rahimullah Yusufzai, an eminent Pakistani journalist, who has twice interviewed Osama bin Laden, had a different explanation for the conditions that led to the offensive. “The Taliban were initially trying to win public support in Swat by delivering justice and peace,” Yusufzai said. “But when they got into power they went crazy and became brutal. Many are from the lowest ranks of society, and they began killing and terrorizing their opponents. The people were afraid.”
The turmoil did not end with the Army’s invasion. “Most of the people who were in the refugee camps told us that the Army was equally bad. There was so much killing,” Yusufzai said. The government had placed limits on reporters who tried to enter the Swat Valley during the attack, but afterward Yusufzai and his colleagues were able to interview officers. “They told us they hated what they were doing—‘We were trained to fight Indians.’ ” But that changed when they sustained heavy losses, especially of junior officers. “They were killing everybody after their colleagues were killed—just like the Americans with their Predator missiles,” Yusufzai said. “What the Army did not understand, and what the Americans don’t understand, is that by demolishing the house of a suspected Taliban or their supporters you are making an enemy of the whole family.” What looked like a tactical victory could turn out to be a strategic failure.