The Worst Human Tragedy, My words in Pakistan Observer.
 

THE WORST HUMAN TRAGEDY.

December has always been the most cruel and deadly month for Pakistan. It dismembered Pakistan in 1971, deprived us of a genuine, learned and enlightened leader, Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and now it has befallen upon us the worst human tragedy. Words fail to express the grief on this heinous barbarism perpetrated on innocent school children and tongue and heart seize to produce words of consolation.

It certainly not only is a national but a human tragedy and December 16 would always be remembered as one of the darkest of the darkest days in the history of mankind. There should be no doubts left that terrorism and extremism are the existentialist threat to our survival, the most pressing and formidable challenge we are faced with and are the canker eating into the very vitals of our society.

This incident is a stark reminder to the fact that we as a nation immediately need to recognise our actual foe, shun our differences, realise the sensitivity of the challenges we are confronted with, come on one page and throw away the apologetic attitudes towards those monsters which are not sparing our innocent children either.

It is high time all the stakeholders, be that political elite, security establishment, civil society, media or intelligentsia, revisit their priorities. Otherwise it would be too late and beyond getting corrected. Both the government and opposition are requested to forge a consensus and stand by the security apparatus to shutdown this barbarism to safaguard and rebuild Pakistan, if their claim of rebuilding Pakistan is not mere a rhetoric aimed at gaining political mileage.

Tasawar Bosal
—Mandi Bahauddin


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