Sunday, April 26, 2009
I would like to express my deepest sympathies and condolence with the people of Pakistan and swat in particular on the sad demise of our parliament which passed away the day Nizam-e-Adl was passed without any strong objection or even an argument. It was shameless to see our National Assembly succumbing to the Taliban. If the National Assembly is there just to toe the line of the presidency then I think there is no need to put a burden on our national exchequer by having this mammoth assembly and paying these spineless members a hefty amount of perks and privileges for just sitting idle in the assembly. We should get rid of this parliamentary system if they ask us the people of Pakistan that if you have any other option let us know; if that is to be done by the people themselves then again there is no need for you people to claim yourself as the representative of the people of Pakistan.
It is a disgrace for our country to have such sort of coward members sitting in the assembly and deciding our fate and future. It was sad or rather hilarious to see the opposition leader of the assembly rather taking a stand against the Taliban was seen taking a stand against the US – sir, that is not the time for you to go on your usual anti-American rant and Musharraf-bashing; that is the time to hear the plea and cry of the people of Swat.
The main justification of the ANP, and now parliament, is that this was the demand of the people of Swat. However, the comments I read in your newspaper everyday from the citizens of Swat clearly tell us all they demand. They want the protection of the state, which both the provincial and federal governments have surrendered shamelessly to the TNSM and the Swat Taliban.
The question which needs to be addressed right away is why the state failed in carrying out its primary responsibility and why the army failed to counter the Taliban in Swat. This collective failure and collective surrender is because parliament is sitting idle, ignoring the grave, serious threat to our national security. The army comes up with the justification that we are not trained to fight a counterinsurgency and if that argument is indeed accepted then why doesn't the government ask the army to train its soldiers in counterinsurgency operations? Surely, that is the biggest need for the country, not training in conventional warfare.
Postscript: to the Taliban: Jinnah's Pakistan is lost forever, but the people of Pakistan will not and cannot be silenced by your gun and will not be petrified by your arms, we will fight till our last drop of blood.
Ezzam Ali Khan
Rawalpindi
*****
In each one of us 170 million Pakistanis lives the ideology upon which the sovereign state of Pakistan was created and upon which it breathes. That ideology dies each time the Pakistani Taliban snatch away from us the right to the Pakistan of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Each time one of us submits to these criminals, each time one of us surrenders the Pakistan ideology to these barbarians, each time these thugs take from us the right to good education and to our children, each time they drive or threaten to drive a single one of us in any part of the once-free Pakistan from his home, that each time, Pakistan's ideology bleeds to death. If not checked by military means, the Taliban will turn Pakistan into one whole ruin; none of us will ever live a life of freedom again.
If the army can't or won't do the job, by God we can do it ourselves and reclaim for us the Pakistan of Quaid-e-Azam for the second time that the 70 per cent silent Pakistanis are watching burn right now.
Fahd Hassan
Karachi
*****
Sufi Mohammad has that all Pakistani courts are 'un-Islamic'. The silence from the lawyers' community over this is amazing and has raised many questions. They launched a full-fledged campaign and held many protests when a few judges of Supreme Court were removed. They were ready to lay down their lives for their cause. However the complete cessation of courts' proceedings in Swat and now in Buner because of Taliban threats have yet to get any united response from the lawyers.
Ali Ammar
Karachi
*****
It was a sad spectacle when most of television channels were finding one excuse or the other to question the authenticity of the video clip of the flogging of an innocent Swati girl. These channels didn't touch the content of the video and were asking people who are known to be Taliban sympathisers loaded questions such as: "do you think this video has been uploaded to disrupt the peace process in Swat?" I would request the electronic media not to support these monsters in any manner.
Ahsan Javed
Attock
*****
I am living a life of fear. The Taliban are spreading their tentacles and they have to be stopped -- they want to take us back to the Dark Ages. They need to be stopped.
Somayya Athar
Peshawar
*****
I would like to ask the judiciary why it is not taking suo motu notice of the Nizam-e-Adl regulation. How can there be two systems of law in one country?
Anam Gill
Lahore
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