Editorial:THE FRONTIER POST
50 killed in Jamrud mosque blast
More than 50 persons, including men and children, were killed and over 100 others injured when a suicide bomber struck a mosque in Jamrud during Friday congregation in Khyber Agency, officials said. The blast took place at Jamia Masjid Madina in Sherabaz Madokhel in Ghundai area of Tehsil Jamrud, Khyber Agency. Hundreds of people were offering Friday praye
How many a Jamrud is this hapless unfortunate nation fated to undergo grievously? Where is the administration? And what the leadership is doing? Don’t they both know that the nation all over the country is in the grip of a vicious holocaust and that they both must be on their toes to stop this horrific carnage? As some 50 innocent worshippers were blown up into pieces and over 100 lay critically gored in pools of blood in the Jamrud mosque, weren’t both the administration and the leadership hibernating blissfully in some secure niche? Why the mosque had not been secured by tight security shield when it obviously was a potential target of terrorism? Jamrud is well within the range of the militancy-blighted region. And just a modicum of common sense could tell the state security apparatus and its political masters that the vile thugs could possibly target the mosque lethally on a Friday as it would draw the faithful in larger numbers than the normal on this august day during the holy month of Ramadan. Who doesn’t know that the unconscionable vile thugs who though feign their thuggery to be religiously motivated have no qualms in sinning against the believers? The inhuman savages rather gloat over the heartless killing and maiming of the faithful in the places of worship and pridefully claim responsibility for the holocaust. So why had the guardians of law left the Jamrud mosque so insecure that the wicked suicide bomber walked into it unobstructed and blew himself up to soak it with human blood and limbs so horrifically?For how long are the security echelons and the political bosses to keep lulling a distressed and anguished citizenry that a thug bent upon killing himself is hard to stop? Why is the vile character not disabled in his very lair before he crawls out for his sinful mission to inflict death, injury and destruction on the innocent citizenry? Why no orchestrated, coordinated and sustained counter-terrorism campaign has been put in place as yet to prostrate and behead the monstrosity of terrorism stalking all over the land so freely and so bloodily? What for is that huge money-guzzling security apparatus? Only for hibernating and for coming into action with lame excuses and preposterous explanations after the terrorists have struck? And what for is the political leadership? To issue trite customary condemnations and condolences only? Why no heads roll; no questions are asked; and no explanations are demanded? For how long are the political bosses to keep so fiddling and the security flanks remain so asleep while the country is so dangerously caught up in terrorism and criminality?
Karachi is aflame, with the dreadful sight of mutilated bodies in gunny bags staging a return to the beleaguered port city. To salvage the nation’s key economic hub, not kid gloves but an iron fist is essentially called-for to trounce and demolish the merchants of death and mayhem prowling in the city so fearlessly. Yet the leadership has set up just a committee to deal with the situation. For heaven’s sake, what will this committee do where the security apparatus indispensably must be put to the task that it must do but is not doing? Will the committee oversee the burial of the bodies received in gunny bags?Has indeed the leadership lost all its marbles that it is bringing forth loathsome childishness and child-like immaturity where wisdom of the highest order is required so necessarily? If it is not up to the job, which it shows conclusively it is not, shouldn’t it activate the inter-agency consultative and decision-making processes to cope with a very perilous situation the country is in indisputably? Why should just a bunch of politicos of mediocrity huddle up together in a high official mansion and take some expedient decisions about a colossal situation which is palpably beyond their depth and comprehension? The country is precariously adrift to chaos and anarchy. It can afford no more of a bloodied Jamrud and a flaming Karachi. The dreadful drift has to be reversed in any event, an effort which has no room at all for dirty politicking, petty politics and obscene expediencies. Already, it is too late; there is no more time left to fritter away in launching a comprehensive campaign to bring back the country to sanity, peace and normality. If the political leadership fails to do this, the nation will of course be hurt irreparably but it itself will never be forgiven by the posterity for this sin of its against a hapless people who had had the misfortune of having it at the helms at this point in time.
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