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Attack on Malala raises serious questions

By Syed Atiq ul Hassan - posted Friday, 19 October 2012


Why didn’t Mr. Malik and his ministry realise that the Taliban, who already declared Malala on their hit list, could attack her at anytime? What is the point of making claims now except to divert the attention of the people and gain some support for the failing government?

It’s not only Malala Yousufzai, many girls like Malala are being kidnapped, raped, and killed by criminals. Look what is happening in Karachi every single day, on average one dozen people are either killed or injured. The news of these killings is become a part of routine bulletins in the Pakistani press.

In the last four years or so Pakistan law enforcement and security agencies have failed to capture and punish a single terrorist. On the other hand the speeches, claims, condemnations, and promises of political leaders are empty and misleading Pakistani’s.

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The fact of the matter is that regardless of who these killers are, one reality remains: in a country of 180 million people innocent citizens are unsafe.

From local to federal government, and from the President to local parliamentarians who are now showing sympathies and compassion with Malala and asking for national solidarity and unity with Malala, it is little more than an opportunity to be in the media headlines. Where were these government officials when innocent Malala was travelling with others girls without any protection in the most dangerous streets of Swat Valley?

In any civilised society, officials might resign if knowing there existed a risk of harm and they were unable to protect the target. In Pakistan, from the President, Prime Ministers, to the Ministers, it is a shame that only know are they active in helping Malala and ready to provide medical treatment and protection, including media attended presentations of bouquets to Malala’s parents. Yet not one has accepted the responsibility for having failed to provide Malala safety and no politician has resigned.

It is the responsibility of government to provide security to every citizen of the country, especially, to those who are already in the limelight and putting their lives at risk. Malala is now fighting for her life with 180 million Pakistani’s praying for her. Malala doesn’t need kind words from immoral and incompetent political leaders. Rather all Pakistani’s need safety and security.

The attack on Malala has not only saddened the entire Pakistani nation and shocked the international community. There is no dispute amongst opinion-makers that the attack on Malala was the most inhuman act of terrorism; except by those who claimed responsibility.

In the last couple of years, Osama Bin Laden’s end game was plotted in Pakistan. Raymond Davis was freed through a strange overnight court settlement. Terrorists in the heart of Karachi attacked the naval base, Mehran. Politicians however failed to act, claiming the need to establish democracy. But democracy can only survive if the country survives.

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The history of Pakistan shows that Pakistani’s are ignorant of what has been happening within the country. That is why time and again we see the same faces making false promises to change the country and the people put votes in their baskets. Pakistan cannot survive if as a nation is continues to be ignorant and let the looters and shooters take the lives of innocent people and ruin the country.

It is now the time for the people of Pakistan to open their eyes, analyse and think who Taliban are. Most importantly who are constantly supplying attacker with dangerous weapons? How come they are spreading from Peshawar to Karachi, kidnapping people, and asking for ransom anywhere at any time? How come the law enforcement agencies have failed to eliminate the criminals operating freely, kidnapping and murdering people in the largest commercial city of Karachi with no one having been arrested and punished?

Malala is only one young girl who has received national and international coverage, but what happens to the millions of boys and girls in Pakistan who are at the mercy terrorists who can launch any attack, anywhere, at any time, in city or town of Pakistan? Law enforcement agencies have failed and cannot stop them.

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Syed Atiq ul Hassan, is senior journalist, writer, media analyst and foreign correspondent for foreign media agencies in Australia. His email is shassan@tribune-intl.com.

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