The Good, The Bad and The Eid
By The Pakistani Spectator • Oct 12th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized • 25 CommentsAmid all that has happened over Ramadan, as others have mentioned, this Eid might not be the most colorful of all … the fact however remains that it is Eid. Its one day in the entire year thats truly ours, its a promise, its something we can look out for, something that has the potential to make our otherwise rather gray lives a little colorful.
Amidst all the havoc, we have perhaps become rather insensitive. In one way or the other, someone is always hurting. Ghazala talked about Waziristan … I ask her what about the 1000 that they killed? Lt Chanzegi is without a leg this Eid, Capt Imran wont be there to give his 3 year old Eidi and Lance Naik Imtiaz’s mother will be waiting !
The good isn’t so good anymore, is it? specially when you lose your best friend to a war thats not yours !
Sitting 8000 miles from home, watching, all I can think of is that regardless of everything, we deserve one day to be happy. We deserve to celebrate Eid because if not today, then when?
I believe that when my brother wants some Eidi and my cousin wants some Henna and my mother wants a smile, I owe it to them. I wont deny them that because someone in Waziristan decided that they did not owe anything to their kids.
Its Eid, and as I said earlier its one thing thats truly ours. Say a prayer for all who cant have the Eid they want (including myself). Thats our Eidi to them.
Lets be sensitive, but lets not lose Eid. Lets be colorful this Eid. Lets be Green and White.
(Disclaimer : These are only my personal opinions and do not reflect on anyone else that I know or represent)
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—> The good isn’t so good anymore, is it? specially when you lose your best friend to a war thats not yours ! < ---
Whose war is it? Do tell. I thought this war was our war. A War on extremism and terrorism and to stop a lawless state springing up inside Pakistan. Every shaheed is going to be prayed for and rememebred in our prayers and the struggle for a free Osama and Terrorist/Extremist free Pakistan will continue. Alhamdolillah.
Pakistan Zindabad
liked what you wrote in this post….
i guess we lose the flavour of our festivals admist all the madness and the insecurity….
but all is not lost!!!
liked the line…go green and white
although at our end the colours are different…but the sentiment is eternal….
thanks for dropping by on the blog
will chk this space for more…..
“I know when Lt B signed up for the Army…he did not want to die on his homeland…fighting against his own people !”
I don’t know about your mother, I never met her, But my mother would call it Pakistan’s war and my dying at the hands of people who kill and maim in the name of Osama, my mother would call me a martyr.It is all based on viewpoints. To me Osama is a Kafir. To you a Muslim. To you those blowing up our natural resources are your own people. To me they are the enemy. Jihad is also protecting one’s country. And Pakistan is my country.
“if i die after killing a few in Waziristan?”
Tipu Sultan once said, one day in the life of a lion is worth millions as a jackal. Any I sent to the depths of Hell before I die is that many less terrorists. Alhamdolillah. If down the line my kids and their kids and the kids after than can say their ancestor died to free them of terrorism, then I would have done my duty.
Your friends chose the wrong profession if they had no intention of killing terrorists who blow up Pakistani state pipelines and resources and who blow up people in markets and suicide bomb inside Pakistan. They should have been anything but in the army. No offense to your friends but if you can’t protect your country with a weapon, don’t bother. Use other means. You should be glad your friends are Martyrs.
Pakistan is losing the war because people like you and the farmer believe it is not their war. Period.
Go Green and White (and when I say it, I mean it).
The question is whose war we are fighting and why.
What is the crime of people in North Waziristan? If US feels that there is any problem in that area, then why not a dialogue? Why carpet bomb them?
Are they not humans? If they want to live in their way, then its their right, and it has been there for centuries. Why fuss?
I never commented on who is a Muslim and who is a Kafir. Thats not for us to decide. And where did anyone get an idea that I was supporting Osama? or anything of that sort?
Support our troops ? I made that decision when turned down a full ride to MIT to join the PAF so I really dont need to explain myself to anyone. When did I say that I dont support my troops….but do you really think you can console the families of those who lose everything just by using words? Martyrs? thats all you have got?
And if you really think its our war…what have you done about it?
Maybe we should stop raising the finger and just look at ourselves before judging people !
Take care bud. I will be serving you and many like you.
Reza support that army which killed its own people in Balochistan, Waziristan and in Lal Masjid?
I dont feel like that.
I sometimes wonder as why exactly we dont want to get ourselves liberated from the stereotypical artifical mounds of hypocrisy and self deception.
You cannot do the suicde attacks and then hide in the hinterlands, and then hope that noone will strike at you.
You got me thinking there, Saady, but the thing is that have we created this army to kill our own people? and everybody abhors terrorism, but whynot show compassion to our own people?
Ok, I will accept this operation, if Pak army also does the same kind of operation in occupied Kashmir.
It takes guts to attack a real enemy, and anybody could attack his own people.
Rumta Jogi : I do believe the people in Waziristan are wrong … and they cannot expect to do get away with what they are doing
As Prof Khan said..you cant expect to do things and expect people not to strike back…
However, its perhaps the hardest thing that our soldiers face… its hard to fight against people who are your people…just misdirected !
and Ghazala..i disagree..its easy to fight against a real enemy…its hard to fight against your own people !
I think that army is doing well to limit the miscreants in that area, otherwise the fire will spreas all over the country.
But Saad, fire is already there. What about the plethora of suicide attacks and bomb blasta throughout the country, huh?
Oh Kamil, cut the crap out, you always talk nonsense, I must say, plz dont mind this.
Compare the suicide attacks and blasts of Iraq with Pakistan. One or two blast a month doesnt mean that fire has spread.
Its the signal that fire is about to spread, and the proactive measures by army are ensuring to curb it at the spot.
Now come bash me.
Sameer, if I would be army and you would be living in Mir Ali, and I killed your family as a collateral damage, then what you blabbings would be, huh?
Why in the hell would I be in Mir Ali?
Stop giving lame excuses for terrorism.
You dont listen to the reason, do you?
Why dont you peole liberate the Tribal belt? Its primarily, naturally and historically the part of Afhganistan, and that is why there is unrest in there.
Also, honestly I think that it would also relieve Pakistan a lot, if you hand that area to Afhgans.
Ok, Abhinash you compensate us with Kashmir, and we will give FATA to Karzai,
Hows That?
I am amazed that a simple post generated so much discussion. I welcome all points of view coz it actually forces us to think and maybe see the world from the other’s perspective.
The only thing that I “think” we should be a little more careful with is personal attacks and to be honest with you…I am a victim to the temptation to do that myself.
Reza : I did not mean to directly ask you what “you” were doing for the country. That needs to be left unto us ourselves and that is. I like the fact that you are willing to challenge ideas but a cynical approach really doesn’t lead us anywhere ! I understand that you lost your loves ones to the war and I thank you for that and bow my head in honor of “them” but … do you really think we honor them by just saying…hey…lets send some more in there so we can bow heads for some more and honor a few more. I would rather honor you alive, with your family than dead beyond recognition. I do not mean that to demean any who have given their lives though, we owe every second of our freedom to them … but there are other ways … they might take time but we gotta do what we gotta do !
Oh and while we are on that, I do think the Pakistani government was pretty fair in the whole Lal Masjid deal… they waited, and then they went in when all other means were exhausted ! I cant say that for Waziristan though, coz there are women and children there that do not have the option of surrendering or changing how some are shaping their future…so yeah…thats my take on that. It does hurt me though that “our people” are dying.
I hate to quote the US history here , but the bloodiest war they have faced yet was the Civil War where they killed each other. Today they dont have that problem…I DO NOT SAY THIS TO IMPLY THAT WE SHOULD KILL OUR OWN…I am just saying that some things are sometimes necessary evil and we being Muslims have to be extra conservative with these “necessary evils”
Peace and Go Green and White !