Source: ET
I was to give you “far sadder stuff” from my trip to Quetta with the HRCP, in continuation of my piece of last week, wasn’t I? Well, a most sad event, yet another killing of yet more innocent Hazaras took place mid-week just as I was marshalling my thoughts and feelings.
So, the dark glasses and the burqas and the helmets didn’t help, did they? For when we met Hazara political leaders just 12 days ago, they said that whilst they were generally a liberal, educated, outgoing people, even their women and girls had begun to wear burqasto hide their Hazara features.
The men and boys wore dark glasses all the time for the same reason, and those who owned motorcycles wore helmets even while buying/delivering stuff in the marketplaces, even in the intense heat for the same reason.
But none of that helped did it? For the murdering, heartless sectarian terrorists hit them while they were at prayer at an imambargah, where you would only find Shias. What would the Hazara do now? Which cave will they now cower in? Sitting ducks poor things, who gave us our second Commander-in-Chief; courageous fighter pilots; and excellent soldiers with a sense of duty par excellence.
WHEN will the mayhem end? And why not sooner rather than later when the perpetrators are known by their OWN admission of guilt? Punjab is the largest, most powerful province in the country which professes that it will look after the other smaller, more challenged ones, Balochistan leading. Well then, why not straightaway; why not today, when one of the heads of the hydra-headed monster stares us in the eye?
Mr KS, a man of high status will narrate only the emotional sentiments has disappointed. It is time to do some concrete acts. He agreed the man in uniform (IG FC) even did not bother to return his calls what to talk of meeting. So see the plight of civil society and human rights organisaton he represents. He himslef served in Khaki. In fact it is the mind set which requires complete reformation and overhaul and no one is thinking on these lines. On one side mindset of extremists requires reformation while on the other side minds in Khaki have to accept the realities of changed time. Unfortunately no concrete effort is seen in pipeline for both the problems. Even current government has put the finance matter on top priority and is not coming up with concrete plans to deal with relgious extremism as well to reform the mind set of those who are in uniform. So to me persons of KS stature now have to come out without mincisng the words and ask the government to take both these problems with concrete planning and action. Failing which I fear will be last chance for the Pakistan to survive as naiton on the map of the globe.