Hi, friends, See this is a blog by a Pakistani Blog writer, this displays the true face of Terror in Pakistan.Great writing, so i have given her article a place in my blog...................................... Kumar
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Its disgusting and sickening and we have simply had enough of it! This morning switching on TV swept waves of awe and repugnance at yet another live show of barbarism and cannibalism. The video footage clandestinely played by all the channels present a streaming show of violence in which an un armed young man is begging for his life, in front of steel-virtued rangers, with no hint of humanism let alone mercy, shooting him dead, after battering and castrating him. How amusing is it? The true reason why people have abandoned cinema these days is the ubiquity of such shows of theatricality with all the elements of drama in it, predominantly violence. But let’s swap the situation for a while..It could have been your brother and my brother, and we could have been in mourning..It seems, God forbid, we are waiting for the day to come…all silent and watching….
What should we call it….shameful or inhumane…three reported incidents in a row… the Kharotabad incident where five Chechans were killed at the hands of police and FC alleging them as foreign terrorists, the Sialkot incident where people brutally murdered two brothers accusing them of robbery and murder and now this one…
It appears a prediction-defying devolution of morals, its some time people and at others the law enforcing agencies acting like their own independent court of law, justice and reprimand. You’re allowed to kill some one you find robbing a shop just because it is the right thing to do and beating that person to death just because it’s fair, is the prevalent norm. What have we become as people, self-proclaimed enforcers of justice and law. Where on one hand we put up a strong fight to save our judiciary, on the other hand, all bent to deny and obliterate even its traces. After all this, I believe we are people with a plain set of dichotomies. A strange bunch of people who cry their hearts on losing a cricket match and sit silent and contented at home when an innocent fellow citizen is killed. And then we bawl over the fact how our country is nearing devastation! How can we afford to live with our patterned hypocrisy? When would we be able figure out which side are we.. good or the bad?
With our law enforcing agencies playing God and havoc around just because they happen to hold the gun, and so deserve the inherent right to shoot someone they see as a potential danger, or when they just wish to kill out of pure mischief. Are our armed men a set of trained killers, brainwashed into being pure cannibals, or are they ever taught the basic human virtues and how to use the power granted to bring the guilty to justice and ,that not by killing butby bringing him to the court of law where he would be indicted or set free of charge…I mean some sense of responsibility or accountability…or is it plainly a jungle rule?
Seeing that ranger pointing his gun and shooting that young man reminded me of my once favorite game “Counter-Strike” that instructed this as a rule that no innocents should be killed or one will lose their number of lives. In these times of reality shows and programs, perhaps we are not even taught that. Perhaps, life is too cheap, or we have a population flood, mothers have too many children, loosing one would not murder her motherhood, people don’t have a spare stock of tears to shed nor strength to stand up against the tyrant. At the end of the day, perhaps all of us are trained killers, some kill their fellowmen, and the rest have killed their own conscience.
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(Madiha Ishtiaque is the content writer and person-in-charge of the The News Blog.)
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