150 people wounded and almost 50 dead, women and children in majority, Karachi mourns today. After a car bomb and another blast (150 kilograms explosives) which took place at Maghrib time that rocked the city on 3rd of March 2013. It was detonated in the Abbas Town, a Shia dominated residential area. The twin explosions were so powerful that they damaged flat buildings, cars, and surrounding areas leaving on the site a crater that was 2 meters wide and more than 1 meter (4 feet) deep. "I was at home when I heard a huge blast. When I came out, I saw there was dust all around in the streets. Then I saw flames," said Syed Irfat Ali, a resident who described how people were crying and trying to run to safety. Tahira Begum, a relative of a blast victim, demanded the government take strict action against the attackers. "Where is the government?" she asked during an interview with local Aaj News TV. "Terrorists roam free. No one dares to catch them." A resident who lived in the area where the bomb went off Sunday said there had been another blast nearby just a few months ago. "The government has totally failed to provide security to common people in this country," Hyder Zaidi said.
According to the BBC report; “Groups such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi have long regarded Shia Muslims as heretics and have stepped up attacks in recent years.” With media reports emerging slowly, all emphasized on sectarian targeting, one wonders why this is regarded so? Reports come in that the TTP was responsible.
Our brothers and sisters die on daily basis; we
are under attack, not one community but the whole country. Register this in
mind, everyday who are targeted in Karachi or elsewhere in Pakistan are the
citizens of this country first, they are killed for one reason only; for being a
Pakistani, and that their faith is never asked when they
are made to die. Extremist elements inside
the country are backed by foreign Governments who are likely the culprits.
The end goal is to plunge Pakistan into a sectarian nightmare reminiscent of post-Saddam Iraq or the
tragic events currently unfolding in Syria!
Iraq today still has its towns and cities bombed where Shia reside, it is
blamed on the Sunni population showing a picture to the world that what was
done to Iraq was absolutely correct by the NATO. This also shows,
an international conspiracy; to divide the Muslims and create undue panic in
the religion.There are certain questions a common Pakistani would ask: :
Where are all these explosives coming from? What are all those pickets for which have cluttered every city of Pakistan? What are our security agencies doing about this? Why is there no action being taken by the Government? Why is it letting it all happen? Why do the Government and its allies only condemn such attacks, while the criminals walk freely all over Pakistan? Why have the citizens of this country been put to this insecurity? What is their fault?
Even more disturbing is the fact that no security personnel arrived at the scene of the bomb blast at Abbas Town. The rangers/police were deployed at Mohatta Palace where a Government advisor was celebrating her engagement ceremony, with a musical night that lasted way after midnight. It is said; the security personnel were not allowed to leave their positions at the palace. Why the honorable rulers were having a swell time at the cost of their subjects?
The Interior ministry knew this was to happen, Mr Rehman Malik the said minister had announced it to media in one of his press conferences. If such was the case, why weren’t actions taken on time to prevent this atrocious terrorist attack? What seems here is: That there is total incompetence that rules us. Having reports of such attacks and no action taken to prevent shows a complete paralysis, incompetency, that the Government is lethargic. There is lack of coordination between the security agencies, the Rangers, Police and the Army.
As a Pakistani citizen, our hearts bleed for those who died, our hearts cry for those who got injured, our hearts feel the pain of those families who became victims. Let this moment in time be a lesson for every Pakistani. Through hardship walks in resilience and the will to survive. Miracles will not happen for us! Those times are gone with the passing away of the pious Prophets. Do we look forward to get gobbled up like Iraq or Syria? Can we change our fate without expecting it from a Government that has no will to help?
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This is sad that such a dilemma has become a routine now. When we would start doing right things. We need unity to avoid such damages. We need to know search out why all this is happening. Blame game is what suits to the perpetrators of such sabotage. They are worst people than our declared enemies. Our enemy is defined and is visible across the line, though it also indulges in patronizing these hidden enemies but the local elements playing in the hands of enemies are still doing things which our enemy can't do directly. We as a society should exposed our hidden enemy and our security agencies must evolve a strategy to counter it.
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