Uncomfortably numb (II)
KARACHI:
This is with reference to George Fulton’s “Uncomfortably numb” (July 6). His article hits the nail on the head. As a whole, we have become desensitised to the suffering around us.
Each one of us is happy as long as he or she, or any one of his or her near and dear ones, is not affected.
The perpetrators of these attacks will go to hell, but so will we, our politicians and everyone who has ever been in the government, either for actively aiding and abetting these terrorists or for idly turning a blind eye to them. With each passing day, I fear, Pakistan may be nothing more than a cameo of a less than a century in world history.
It took 27 years to lose half of it. I wonder how much longer the remainder will take.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2010.
This is with reference to George Fulton’s “Uncomfortably numb” (July 6). His article hits the nail on the head. As a whole, we have become desensitised to the suffering around us.
Each one of us is happy as long as he or she, or any one of his or her near and dear ones, is not affected.
The perpetrators of these attacks will go to hell, but so will we, our politicians and everyone who has ever been in the government, either for actively aiding and abetting these terrorists or for idly turning a blind eye to them. With each passing day, I fear, Pakistan may be nothing more than a cameo of a less than a century in world history.
It took 27 years to lose half of it. I wonder how much longer the remainder will take.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2010.