<Requested Post > <Some thing which should be shared><Guest Post>
A journalist tweeted yesterday “Why Malala and why NOW?”
And it speaks volumes. The innocent girl
became a victim of some people’s evil desires; desire to rule the
world, a desire to dictate one’s own terms and conditions and a desire
to create chaos. The horrific incident of shooting Malala and other two
girls is barbaric to the core.
A million dollar question certainly is
that who is Ahsanullah Ahsan and why on earth his calls are never
tracked. Why does he take blame on himself (i.e. TTP) whatever the
incident is and always manages to call international media but no one
bothers to trace out who is he in reality.
But before that we need to focus on ‘Why Malala’
question? The innocent brave girl was made an icon against Taliban by
all those who sit in their drawing rooms commenting on social media and
TV channels while remaining within their comfort zones. Her stories were
recorded by BBC Urdu and published as a diary. She was purposely
brought to limelight to make her a symbol. The role of media in
bringing Malala to limelight and promoting her out of proportion was
surprising. Poor girl was used for media ratings. To serve the vested
interests, they put the life of innocent girl at risk. She became a
target for the terrorists. Even now, media is surely serving someone
else’s purpose by giving the issue a lot of twists and turns.
‘Why Now’? The timing is also very crucial. Exactly when the entire world was getting breaking news about drone attacks
and questioning the legitimacy of such attacks, suddenly Malala was
attacked, she was identified first and then targeted and all of a sudden
all the pro US policies, pseudoliberals started talking about
Waziristan operation and legitimising illegal drone strikes.
An important thing to note is that the
leader of Swat Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah reportedly hides in Afghanistan
and operates with the cooperation of US/Afghan forces; so if Taliban of
Swat are responsible for this attack, they are operating from
Afghanistan and not Waziristan. Why there is never a drone strike across
the border, not that I am demanding it, but it’s logical that US
definitely has a dubious agenda in the region.
The case looks quite simple; another
event in Swat to make grounds for another military operation. Previously
it was a fake video, and now the ‘tool’ was an innocent 14 year old
girl. The quick and strong condemnation from USA (by President Obama and
Hillary Clinton) gives a message in itself. Drone attacks would be
portrayed as essential, by citing that government of Pakistan is unable
to protect its own citizens from terrorist activities.
The role of government is deplorable.
Governments are supposed to protect their citizens, in which our
government has terribly failed. Blaming terrorists and arranging air
ambulance is not the solution. Government should take complete
responsibility of protecting its citizens.
Malala is an asset for the nation.
Whether its Malala, Aafia Siddiqui, missing persons, drone attacks ,
suicide bombs, target killings in Karachi and elsewhere, Pakistanis are
at the suffering end.
Dr Shahid Masood quite reasonably asked
the people who pick and choose cases for condemnation, if those who are
killed in drone attacks are not plastic toys. We are being killed for no
reason. The only way out is to get out of this American war. We must
not put more and more lives at risk.
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