Tell me....

‘aey rah e haq k shaheedo,

Wafa ki tasweero,

tumien watan ki hawaen

 salam kehti hain’

I have been hearing this along with other small documentaries that depict the uproar in the country regarding the NATO and ISAF attack on an army check post in Mehmand agency yesterday.(26^th nov,2011)killing 24 army officers. Foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has conveyed her anger over this attack to Hillary Clinton saying that such attacks are unacceptable.

I logged in my Fb account and saw statuses of my friends regarding this incident and messages from different pages and groups condemning it. Even the display pictures of different groups have become colorless.

I respect it all but as I looked at the news headline, a thought struck my mind.

Why are we mourning over 24 army men and why are we so surprised as a nation when we are used to hearing the news of drone attacks on Mehmand, Khyber, Malakand, Bajaur, Dir, Meeranshah, Waziristan and others Paki territories that wipe out entire colonies in which innocent people of Pakistan reside.

Tell me, isn’t it unfair to those men n women n children? How come they are so unimportant to us that we never even bother to give their miserable death a second thought? Why, as a nation, we have accepted drone attacks as the fate of those tribal men n women? Why have we become so ‘cruel’ in deciding their future?

Aren’t they human enough to arouse our sympathies? Our government doesn’t register a protest against those inhuman attacks. Let alone that, it doesn’t even bother to count the number of people dead and put it all under the heading of ‘collateral damage’.

It saddens me to state all this but tell me why are we so indifferent towards those who are protecting those impossible areas of our country that are open for any kind of travelling because of its terrain. Look at the hardships they bear, the kind of life they live and the attitude that is kept towards them and they still remain faithful to us … what do we offer in return?

A drone attack, an untimely death, unidentified dead bodies, crippled survivors, orphans and widows and loads of cries and broken hearts...

How can we be so heartless to cry over one baby girl of a captain and ignore hundreds of children who suffer each day in one remote corner of our land? Their lives, their sorrows, their existence, their dreams, their survival, their wellbeing means nothing to us…

Are they not Pakistani? Or probably we think they are some 3^rd class citizens, living off in dirt and should be treated as scum because that is their fate and because we are pharaohs in our minds.

Quaid-e-Azam called them’ the protectors of our borders and an integral part of Pakistan’ so much for Quaid’s saying…

And tell me if we are all questioning America now for the shahadat of 24 men in an impermissible attack, does this mean that those drone attacks were carried out with permission?

If these are ‘shaheeds’, then those must be ‘maqtools’

Why are our media and govt n army fussing over this incident? It’s a progress made by USA.

Had we not provided our soils to America, America wouldn’t have dared standing astride our chest today dishing out serious and unwarranted threats!

If only our dictator hadn’t started the sale of Pakistani blood, we could have saved so many of us.

If only he had said a firm NO to USA then, at least we would have been fighting our own war…

This all started with Aimal Kansi and the fire has grown since … uncontrollably.

I am not anti-army or something. I am a Pakistani who cries evenly on  the death of armymen as well as civilians.

Dear Pakistanis, don’t create divide. Mourn over every single Pakistani man, women and child and condemn every drop of blood that was shed! May ALLAH be with us!

“Zulm to phir zulm hai, bharta hai to mit jata hai

Khoon to phir khoon hai, girta hai to jam jata hai!”