Thursday, January 21, 2016

Charsadda Attack: Bleeding Once Again

At the dawn of 2016, the people of my country cry tears of blood once again. We have since long suffered at the hands of those who are hell bent on destroying the beacon of hope. But strangely never have we been shaken as we were when they attacked the heart of that hope, on 16th December 2014.
They tried to take our hope but we stood steadfast, we were strong. Yet once again we returned to being negligent. We forgot what it had meant to us, what we had felt when we saw small bundle of joy carried out of a place where the most he was supposed to be worried about were his papers, lifeless heading to a grave. Never to smile again, tease again, shout again, laugh again or walk again amongst us sinners. It was not just one such hope that was taken from us but several.
The battle ground had been firmly declared and it would be academics, they attacked our learning places and we promised to help so many more children learn and get education.
However as I said, we became neglectful, like always we forgot that the people had to do something, and we just let the army handle it. Resulting in 20th January 2016, when the future of this country was attacked and a University became the front line of this war.
There were tears again, and virtually we made promises like we did before. But no one can promise that this will not happen again. No one can assure that we will not let the army handle this situation without any transparency.
Without transparency how do we know that the person being hung by the military courts is actually linked to these monsters, because if he isn't then we are converting a whole family in to vulnerable supporters of these monsters. How do we know that small time manipulated pawns are not being hung to protect the big shots. And how do we not know about back channel deals, that might just as well be facilitating the terrorists.
Not trying to diminish the sacrifices of the soldiers in the operation against the terrorists. But unfortunately it has not been as effective as it should have been. Something is lacking and if we ever hope to win this war, we need to find that very problem. It might be withing the establishment, the government, the society, economy, culture or in all of these. But if we do not want the only sources of hope disappearing from our Country we need to solve this.

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