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| India-Pakistan |
| A state of inaction |
| 2015-05-20 |
| [DAWN] YET another massacre, yet another day of mourning. An endless macabre dance of death unfolds. The 45 Ismailis killed execution-style last week seem another statistic in the spiralling list of victims of terrorism just like the 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. schoolchildren slaughtered in their classrooms. No amount of bloodbath shakes us out of our inaction. There are a few statements of condemnation and then it is business as usual. It is always easy to dump the blame on a 'foreign hand' while the murderers act with impunity. Are we in a state of denial or is this simple expediency? It seems to be a combination. |
| Posted by:Fred |