My friend pinged me to give a shocking news yesterday - 'Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto assassinated'. 'What?' was my reply in complete disbelief. But as I read through the link on Rediff.com, my disbelief turned into a truth.
What a pity... A lady who just survived a deadly blast killing hundreds of innocent people, is murdered in a similar fashion. Some of the reporters say that there has been 4/5 attempted assassinations since this October. There was a baby suicide bomber, a 15 years old boy loaded with explosions was trying to kill her. In spite of such dreadful incidents, the Pakistani government failed to protect their one of the most influential political icons. What could be the implications? In an utter anarchy, a big shot political leader like Benazir is shot dead, where the hell an ordinary Pakistani will look for safety? The problem and solution might be found in the Pakistani Mentality.
Pakistan is always been notoriously known for its political turmoils and lack of respect towards the democracy. There has been a bunch of Generals, ISI honchos, Mullas - Maulawis who molded the principles as per their way just to fill up their own bags. And unfortunately, the Pakistani Aawam failed to recognize their hidden motives. To exacerbate things, there has been international pressure and interference in Pakistan's politics. This assassination is not the end, it's the beginning of realization which should force Pakistan for an introspection. If we look at past 50 years from Pakistan's birth, we will hardly find any strategic decision made to speed up the growth of economy, to provide basic needs of an individuals. Compare it with India's maturity as the World's Biggest Democracy, you will see a country willing to accept changes and the other one which is sticked to useless fatwas. We hear the news of hatred between the Shiyas and Sunnis, a violence on the borders of Baluchistan, a continuous struggle between people from rich Sindh area and other undeveloped areas for political supremacy, a militant, a self-consecrated leader who dreams of Islam Reign in Pakistan sits in a Masjid and challenges the Pakistan's very own constituency. What can one infer from this? Pakistanis are not learning from their mistakes. They are falling to the same delusion of 'Raat Ka Khana Delhi Me Khayenge...' slogan, which once visualized as a symbol of Pakistan's greed and so-called-pride, now leading towards their self destruction. I don't know the meaning of Jihad, but let it be whatever, you can't kill the people in the names of Allah....
The Islamic groups, Inter Services Intelligence, once built keeping in mind the interests of politicians were the icons of strength ( at least that's what they pretended to be). Now they are nothing but the boomerang of threats which has gone very much powerful in recent years. They are not only disastrous for Pakistan but equally dangerous to India's 'Sarwabhaumatva'. In India, the ISI has already gone far deep, and if it is not rooted up now, one day, we will also have to face some such blows or maybe catastrophes. Benazir Bhutto's assassination is a wake up call for all those who are promoting terrorism / fanaticism under the guise of false patriotism.
2 comments:
This is just an example of how extreme fanaticism of handful influential people can ruin a country.
And also a lesson to learn from, for India. We see sparks of fanaticism in our own country for foobar reasons, which is thankfully balanced by the rest of the population. But goes to show we need to have a check, to avoid situations like Pakistan.
Onkar, good article :) Great to see you blog on current affairs so often :)
Thanks Swati, I am finding some time these days, so updating the posts.
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