Humans or Not? Part 2

Pakistanis of all supporting and spiritual persuasions were uniformly angered by the disastrous death of their soldiers caused by an arbitrary air attack by the Nato forces. Pakistani soldiers, posted at a boundary post in Mohmand region, were ruthlessly attacked by Nato planes and helicopters killing 24 and injuring several more.

While this outbreak of sorrow is explicable and defensible, I wonder as to why other acts of violence against sectarian minorities in Pakistan have not stimulated the same grief and rage that we are witnessing today

The purpose here is to spot out the lack of or, at best, muted response to the ridiculous brutality committed against sectarian minorities in Pakistan by those animals who call themselves pious Muslims.

September 2011 when 29 Shias from Quetta’s Hazara community were killed in a intentional assault. They were going to Iran in a bus that was stoped near Mustang by armed militants who killed 29 while seriously injured several others. Compared to the anger and grief over the death of 24 soldiers, the reaction to Hazara murders has been silent at best. The list of community leaders from Punjab and Sindh who visited Quetta to condole with the Hazaras is very small and did not include any typical politician. Not even 50 students from a Punjab-based University demonstrated in harmony with the Shias of Quetta even when Shia academics were being killed by the militants belonging to banned outfits (Professor Danish Alam). However, thousands marched in Lahore today for the slain soldiers while being led by their professors.

And how to forget the barbaric attack on procession of Ashura in 2009. This leads me to a question not about our patriotism but about our religion. Are we correct in labeling ourselves as MUSLIMS or even HUMANS???

Countless in Pakistan believe that the Nato’s attack in Mohmand is an assault on Pakistan’s independence. If autonomy implies “having supreme, independent power over a geographic area” then Pakistan has lost sovereignty in most of its areas including majority of Balochistan and KP. Hundreds of Shia victims are proof that the State has lost control and is unable to neutralize banned outfits. This again leads me to a question, 

If Govt of Pakistan and our security agencies are unable to control these outfits, should we as ordinary citizens think that these untamed brutal animals wearing mask of Muslims are getting support from people belonging to Government and security agencies?????