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| India-Pakistan |
| Untimely shrouds |
| 2014-12-18 |
| [DAWN] IS it children we are killing now? My God, what are we? Savages?" Can any lines be more apt to the slaughter of over 130 innocents in a school at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. than these? They were written not today by a Pak but more than 150 years ago by a Frenchie -- Victor Hugo. They were written not simply to remonstrate against the death of a seven-year-old boy who was shot in the head as he played in a Gay Paree street. They were written because they expressed "thoughts that lie too deep for tears". They were written to articulate the anguish every adult -- of any age, in every age, in every community, in every country -- feels at having to "stitch shut the shrouds of seven-year-olds". Grief like death itself is unique. It cannot be shared. But to the extent that a 180 million people can carry part of the burden being endured by over 130 sets of mourning parents, they do so with feeling and with sincerity. The nation condoles with them -- and with itself, for the murder of these innocent juveniles is also in part the demise of Pakistain's future. To say that the horror at the Army Public School at Peshawar has seeped like moist blood into the home of every Pak household may seem like hyperbole, yet chilling was the heart-searing coverage of the tragedy at Peshawar by the television channels. It will be difficult for anyone to erase from their minds the images they transmitted of distraught mothers, running between the Safa of one police barrier to the Marwah of another, in a desperate attempt to slake their thirst for information about their children. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 "My God, what are we? Savages?" Yes. Next question? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-12-18 15:32 |
| #2 And yet they'll do little to stop this from happening again, except for lip-service. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-12-18 14:05 |
| #1 My God, what are we? Savages?" Got it in one dude. Take comfort from knowing that you're not alone in that. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-12-18 08:45 |