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Few lines from yesterdays'
editorial that depicts a real picture, looks like.. read the rest here: http://www.assamtribune.com/ General Pervez Musharraf’s
home coming after his most significant foreign tour turned out to be subdued
since it coincided with the biggest sectarian massacre in Pakistani history.
TheJuly 4 killings in Quetta, with over 110 casualties (including almost 50
fatalities), were as a gruesome reminder to the government that an organised
gang can undermine Pakistan’s image and stability and challenge the writ of the
government at a time and place of its choosing.Guwahati, Monday, August 4, 2003 Combating terrorism —Mushahid Hussain- Last year, in February 2002, when President Musharraf was in the US, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed. On June 8, again at Quetta, 13 police recruits were killed, and the government is apparently clueless regarding the identity of the killers, although clearly they would be part of the same chain. Earlier, a high-ranking police official was gunned down in the same province in an escalating pattern of sponsored and organised violence. Three messages flow from this massacre. First, successive governments, indeed the Pakistani State, have abysmally failed to get on top of a problem festering since 1987, which today is the single biggest threat to Pakistan’s security and social stability. 2000 lives have been lost in sponsored sectarian strife, but in what is clearly a tribute to the maturity and mindset of the people of Pakistan, such targeted killings have not evoked any sectarian riots only a revulsion against such acts that are repugnant to Islamic teachings and the principles of humanity. Second, it seems the focus of this organised sectarian terrorism has shifted from Karachi to Quetta. In recent years, over a 100 doctors and lawyers were victims of targeted sectarian terrorism in Karachi, apart from places of worship and foreign installations. |
