Double standards as Pakistanis

As the whole nation is now praying since a huge wall of snow crashed into a Pakistan Army camp in the Giari area near Siachen Glacier. Special trained army units have started rescue missions. As a good gesture the international community also offered help for searching of missing army men.

It is good to see that a nation which is torn apart by militancy and corruption has re-united for safety of those who defend the mother land. But what makes me write this blog is that no such unity or even wordy protest or defiance is shown when people belonging to other sects or minorities are ruthlessly targeted; no such sympathy is shown in public when people are taken off buses and killed just because they belong to other belief; not when specific community’s worship places and processions are bombed and even not when hatred speeches are openly delivered.

As a nation we have double standards. 

How?

We throw trash of our home out on street but don’t like our own premises being trashed. We like to criticize others for protesting and creating traffic jams but when we break signals and create traffic jams, we overlook our own doings. List could go down. Similarly I am sorry if I hurt somebody, we would never ever like our loved ones to being subjected to torture or even being killed; but when people are taken out of busses, lined up and shot in head; when processions are bombed; when worship places are targeted; when innocent children are kidnapped just because they belong to some other sect; when people are kidnapped and slaughtered like goats, we don’t protest nor we have discussions on such subjects.

                                                             Why?

It is just because we have left behind our moral values and are now living a life for ourselves, just like a jungle where every animal looks for its own food. It is a shame that we even criticize those who protest such barbaric killing of people.

Being silent on such brutal killing of innocent people makes the silent part an equal party in the crime being committed.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Bishop Desmond Tutu