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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Peshawar Attack: Nothing will change

As 3 days of mourning gets over in Pakistan so will be the hopes that this tragedy is going change anything in Pakistan or will this change anything for the sympathizers of terrorism across the world. The ranting will go on and the lovers of jihad in the name of religion will find new reasons to kill and spread mayhem. And for them they will keep finding some reasons to keep going, sometimes the reason will be Iraq, sometimes Israel, and sometimes Kashmir, gujrat etc. That Pakistan will now be using terror victim card more than ever and will play politics over these dead kids is no guess. The narrative will change but not the agenda. For distortion is so deep into their psyche and hatred so rooted in their thoughts that no less than a messiah will be needed cleanse that. But even a messiah needs someone's call and no one is complaining here, it will be business as usual. This was coming and will keep coming in the coming years for when a nation names its missiles as gauri and ghaznavi they forget that the piece of land they live on was tyrannized by same ghauri and ghaznavi's. That when a nation on the banks of Indus tries to find out its root in the invaders coming from foreign land who plundered their land you don't know to laugh on them or cry for them. For who will stand against the terrorists when the nation is ferried in special run trains to hear Hafez saeed.

16th Dec was no ordinary day. On this day in 1971 it became clear that east Pakistan would become a new nation , After millions of rapes and massacre Bangladesh was born, if they didn't learn then what they will learn now.  They choose to believe in conspiracy theories then and even now it will be easier to live in denial because truth has the tendency to ask difficult questions. Taliban says we did this because you killed our families, isn’t this the same reason they give to support terrorism in India to kill innocents. Is it not the same poisonous theory they used to feed in the minds of their kids? Today that same poison has taken them away. Did they had any sympathy for the yazdis that were massacred in Iraq, were they not children of anyone were they not innocent, were the 166 people killed in Mumbai not innocent. They will have many more of such uncomfortable questions, and to arrive at an answer they will have to answer each one of them, it will therefore be better to live in denial. People had warned them that when you keep snakes in your backyard one day they do come to bite you but who cares. The army owns the nation and the nation do not seem to care, who are we then to reason them? When even a hockey match win is celebrated as a war between civilizations and when no reason is a reason enough then what happens is a tragedy.

And back home in India there were candle light vigils against Israel earlier but then now against whom those candle light vigils will be taken up ... Taliban, Pakistan, ISI or terrorism in name of religion. But let’s not worry they will find out an answer to this also. An attempt will be made by the so called secularists to draw a line between Good Taliban -bad Taliban, Pakistan and terrorism and blur the line between freedom of speech and freedom to spread the agenda of hatred. Men from congress were crying for the rights of free speech of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, they will have more job at hand.


The question is should we sympathize with them when they themselves don't sympathize with themselves, well we can't avoid we want to live for hope, we want to stand with them in this hour of grief, we don't want to pose these uncomfortable questions at this moment, we don't want them to answer this to the world but then they do need to ask these questions to themselves and get a clear answer in their hearts because only that could be a true tribute to the innocents who never lived long enough .And somewhere in our hearts we want to believe that things will change , it’s our dream but before we start believing in our own dreams that this will change something and waste too much of time on that lets make our border stronger because the moment the mourning will be over the firing on the borders will start.