Blasts in Pakistan
Posted by hatim
There has been upsurge in suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan in last few months. The most notebale of them happend in a convoy of Benazir Bhutto upon her return from self imposed exile. I have no sympathies with Benazir and I am indifferent to any thing which happens to her (as long as she doesn't come back to power), but it was really horrific to see 130 people die for nothing. There is a taliban style militancy going in the provice of NWFP (my home is in a border district of NWFP), and this wave of extremism is spreading. Pakistan is seeing a drak period these days.
There were few more attacks, but one which really upset me was attack on a bus full of air force officers in Sargodha. I was born in Sargodha and spent a good 15 years of my life in that town (and on the base). This was a pointless murder of innocent people as they were not involved in any kind of conflict in NWFP. I guess people who do these things have lost all humanity in them, and their human rights shouldbe revoked. But the problem is its not easy to identify the people who are actually behind these attrocities from the people who are associated with them. Perhaps this is why in the tribal areas its never a person who is guilty of doing some thing bad, it always the tribe who pays the price.
But then some people think that there is a good chance that all of this is being done by the Governemnt. Some people further believe all of this is being done on the orders of Americans. Leaving all conspercies aside, I believe that Pakistan is no longer a place for me. I have decided that I will be immigrating from this region to a better and safer future. My family also supports this idea. But I do feel bad about this country, it could be much better.
