Another terrorist attack in Lahore. Who’s to be blamed?
More than 20 people killed and over 200 injured when gunmen detonated a powerful car bomb in Lahore. It’s not something new as we are witnessing such incidents in Pakistan since 2007 but there is something different and new this time. The city of Lahore is under direct control of two brothers, who are too “good” to have never committed any mistake in their lifetime. According to them, whenever they were in power, Pakistan “prospered” like never before. It was “evil dictator” Musharraf that put a full stop on Pakistan’s progress by ousting their government and forcefully “expelled” them from Pakistan. Ironic is that he even forced the two brothers to smile and wave happily to their dear ones at gun-point when they were leaving.
Since these two brothers are “like angels”, they love to criticize everyone around them they don’t like personally. First it was Musharraf, then Zardari and Taseer. Their approach is to make their personal issue a national issue and move people to streets (Thanks to a particular section of media that backs them). Without going into details, let’s come to today’s tragic event. Before that, let’s have a peek into a news that was carried by all newspapers on March 4, 2009:
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team and held Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer responsible for it.
It demanded of the governor to immediately resign from his office after taking responsibility of the incident. The Punjab Assembly in its session passed a resolution in which they condemned the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
Dr Ashraf Chohan moved the resolution in which he demanded of the federal government to sack the governor so that an FIR of the incident could be registered against him. He alleged that the police, under the instructions of the governor, were busy in wooing the PPP MPAs instead of ensuring the security of the visiting cricket team.
When we relate this news item with today’s incident, double face of PML(N) is exposed. If PML(N) is really a sincere and truthful party (as it claims), then it should pass a resolution in the assembly condemning the incident and asking Shahbaz Sharif’s government to resign. After all, now there is no “dictator” Musharraf, Salman Taseer’s governor rule or lack of “independent judiciary” on which blame can be put on.
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Why all the Pakistani, whether they are politicians, analysts or laymen, talk about the problem only, why don’t they talk about the solution…..any good reason