he Sialkot incident seems to have led a lot of people to denounce Pakistan and all that it stands for.
GUJRAT: I liked Mahreen Aziz Khan’s “The liberal lynch mob” (August 28). The Sialkot incident seems to have led a lot of people to denounce Pakistan and all that it stands for. However, I don’t agree with people cursing the country and blaming all Pakistanis as savage and barbaric. As far as how different are we from other nations goes, we need to read American history and their civil war, and how half their nation actually fought to continue slavery. How long did it take from slavery to the first African-American from being allowed on a public bus?
Then take a look at the French revolution, where people’s throats were slit by mobs if the cloth they were wearing was found embroidered. I’m not justifying the Sialkot acts, far from it. I’m merely citing historical examples so we can realise we’re still a lot better off. And also that there is still hope.
Hassan Manzar
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2010.
