The detention of Dr. Afia Siddiqui and her alleged manhandling in Afghanistan is making news these days.We all have suddenly sprung to life after adormant sleep... when five years..Five preciouse years of her life had been used only for torturing her. harrasing her and her children who are still missing and being assaulted in the Baghraam jail -
Every now and then, while we chant rosy anti-terror slogans and bomb our own ppl for being terrorist...while we drool over mouth watering "aids" we are getting form our master Mr. USA and start killin over own inncent ppl and destroyin our mosques so that these bloody islamic terrorists may give the world a chance to get converted into a clean place.. we completely turn blind and deaf towards the menace of terrorism, stifling gusts from Baghraam jail, crazy screams from Abu-Gharib’s dungeons and outrageous humiliations from Guantanamo Bay,that tell tales about the nasty iceberg of injustice down there AND ALSO ANOUT OUR INSESITIVITY, COWARD MINDZ AND SLAVE MENTALITY!!

True, she may be a leading Al-Qaeda terrorist, a key in the 9/11 attacks and more dangerous than Osama Bin Laden, but does that all give THEM the right to strip anyone on the road and keep him in the gloomiest slums of the world, and subject him to anything from sexual harassment to physical assaults? Is this war-on-terror or an exercise of capricious castigation of a bunch of people hand-picked at will? Does anyone’s crime give us the authority to subject him to rape, sodomy and all the hideous kinds of crimes humanity has ever known? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then there is a more emphatic, more convincing and more obvious question mark on the correctness of the direction of war-on-terror.

So, sane people from the two disparate worlds - US and Pakistan- need to glean truth from popular rhetoric. While one is in demand of a massive overhaul of everything from Judiciary to Governance, the other needs a dose on giving precedence to fundamental human rights of the people. And while there is no dearth of people asking for her release and her handing over to Pakistan, I maintain my demand that a complete inquiry be made into whereabouts of Prisoner 650. Who was he/she and what was the type/status of torture used against him/her? When was he/she arrested and where was he/she kept during the course of last five years? The actual prisoner 650 may not be Dr. Afia , and he/she may not be an MITian, nor a Muslim, but that does not forgo his/her right to reach the site of a camera, a lawyer and a hospital.


To Pakistanis

Every now and then, screams from the darkest dungeons of Guantanamo Bay form news. Dr Afia was picked up from our midst – no brows raised. Teeny-weeny news items of her handing over to the US were published – nobody flinched. The Chief Justice taking notice of such disappearances was sacked, and we asked questions of how his sacking would affect us! We all saw these atrocities being perpetrated on the expense of state apparatus, and we absolved ourselves by blaming this or that for it. But deep inside, we all know we need this unabashed orgy to continue, so that our wells don’t dry up, our aids are not stopped, and our rupee does not plummet. We all know of this clandestine prostitution, are contributing to it, are happy over it. While I write these lines, hordes of motorcyclists celebrating independence, singing ‘hum zinda qaum hain’ throng the roads and the best I could find for this DUBLE-STANDARD ORIENTED nation OF OURS was:
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Tum na ram kay monis na hanuman kay dost
tum na kafir kay sana-khoan na musalman kay dost
tum na kufr kay hami na ilhaad kay dost................
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WITH AN ABSOLUTELY BROKEN AND HURT HEART
REGARDS
AMNA!