I am at loss for words over the brutal murder of two teenage students in Sialkot. Students of Murray College, the alma mater of Allama Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. These could have been my kids these could have been your kids. Murdred brutally in front of the mob, in front of the police in broad day light. No one had the courage to stop it. The killers will be brought to justice. But will we still remain a cowardly people with no respect or self respect.
We can beat and maim our women but we are not men enough to stop brutality when we see it. Cowards we are. The cowards of Sialkot. You have lowered the heads of Allama Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz in shame. The cowards of Pakistan. Jinnah is ashamed of us. He turns in his grave. There will be retribution for this cowardice. One too many women have been dishonored in public, one too many non Muslims murdered in the name of religion. Remember the two Christian brothers. Remember Mukhtara mai. Shame on us. Shame on me.
I confess. I am one of those who feel concerned about the image of Pakistan every time something like this happens. But I am glad, this came on TV. This time more than ever before, Pakistanis have been exposed as the cowardly low lives that they really are. Nothing matters. We should be treated like crap all over the world we deserve it. We should have our houses bombed by foreign forces aided by our own government from our own soil. We deserve it.
And we thought our rulers are bad. We are worse. We don’t even deserve the rulers we have today. They are angles compared to us.
Greater brutality has transpired countless times elsewhere in the world, not to mention right next door. But that does not lessen the sorrow an iota. Try telling that to the father and mother of the slain kids. Imagine they were your kids and then try telling this to yourself.
The news channels have moved on already. We are left in the company of our own wretched selves.
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